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by jhanschoo 3039 days ago
otoh, I think that with Electron, people are sufficiently acclimatized to web apps for them to feel at home with it. GTK feels like a java app.
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Yup. The default interface for almost every normal users these days is a web interface. Yes, there are mobile apps, but even on mobiles, users will need to use websites, despite the best efforts of vendors at lock-in into their walled app gardens.

Heck, even on desktops, sometimes the UIs feel quaint and antiquated: no back button/undo by default, many times scrolling failures at different resolutions (the settings screen doesn't fit at a certain resolution and the button is out-of-screen somewhere), text can't be selected and copy-paste by default...