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      It’s definitely been the direction of travel for the last several years. Not because the products are better, but because it’s easier to develop for just the browser than for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

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        it’s easier to develop for just the browser than for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

        They also work on android and IOS. You are also not dependent on the different toolkits. Also it is so much more performant.

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          I’ve never found them to be more performant, and i can’t understand the logic of why a programme running inside another programme would be more performant except in comparison to unoptimised alternatives.

          I’ve never used a web app that i thought was better than a local app. But i definitely understand why developers prefer them.

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          They also work on android and IOS.

          I can imagine it’ll be a 160 MB app that loads the website in a webview, like it usually is

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        21 hours ago

        LibreOffice does everything I need it to and there’s no need for anything else.

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          18 hours ago

          Doesn’t do collaborative online editing and that seems what this is about. But there are foss alternatives already, collabora/nextcloud, cryptpad etc.

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            17 hours ago

            Well yeah, that’s why my parent comment said its good for offline editing. I don’t need collaborative online editing.

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      A good web app is awesome!

      But the big ones usually wants to have a native app so that they can scan your whole computer and so on. This is good news.

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        which is fine if you deny network connections for it with a per-process firewall. but with a webapp you can never be sure that they won’t snatch your documents.

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          Depends, if it is open source then you just host it yourself for your organisation.