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by sgt 7 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 7 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 7 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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