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by sgt 4 days ago
There's plenty of software running on Linux that is not open source, though.
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WD-42 4 days ago
Such as?

The only proprietary software I have running on my machine is electron apps, which are essentially bloated VMs. As we’ve seen from this thread, this is still apparently too great of an engineering feat for anthropic to tackle. I don’t think I’m unique in this regard.

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sgt 4 days ago
Tons and yeah of course some are also Electron apps but not all... Proprietary apps I can think of include Chrome, Teams until a few years ago (I think they just gave up), Steam, the JetBrains IDE's, Cursor, Discord, Matlab, ...

Of course a lot of Linux users these days just live their lives through browsers. That's pretty sad.

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WD-42 4 days ago
Chrome: Is electron without electron

Teams: Was electron

Steam: Valve is deeply invested in Linux, this isn't them just shipping an app. Different category.

Jetbrains: Java

Cursor: Electron

Discord: Electron

Matlab: Java

ABI compatibility doesn't matter for any of your examples.

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wqaatwt 4 days ago
> Different category

Isn’t Steam mostly webviews though ?

> Java

Well.. It’s not that massively different from running Qt apps in Gnome, though?

> ABI compatibility

I’m sure it matters for Swing to an large extent. Of course it the problem of the people developing the UI framework rather than the end app

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