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by sixdimensional 3140 days ago
Yes, thoroughly. It's a great project, my only regret is it would be nice to have a purely desktop based front-end utility. Metabase comes close in the fact that you can run one single JAR and be up and running, so it's close for sure. Maybe I am old school, but I think part of my gripe is due to the state of flux of merging traditional desktop UI and web or browser tech. For ordinary desktop users, running a JAR file so they can run a local server app in a browser seems too technical still.

I guess I'm saying, partially it's the packaging for end users who want to run independently like a standalone application which is the issue.

But yes, Metabase is great and the team working on it is doing a great job.