The best part of this system is that this solves the churn in modern GNU. This constant change for the sake of change that serves only to increase the maintenance cost of software, disincentivize the creation of offline desktop applications (it’s far cheaper to make a web app where you just change CSS to “modernize it”), and naturally the fact that GNU cannot be relied upon to remain the same/compatible for more than a week is why “the year of the Linux desktop” never came and never will. Thanks to WINE/Proton, the safe Linux target is now win32. As long as people target Windows and macOS, Linux remains that “other” option. The Linux kernel tends to remain compatible with nearly any user land, and therefore with appimage, it may finally be possible to release software for GNU… maybe…
The best part of this system is that this solves the churn in modern GNU. This constant change for the sake of change that serves only to increase the maintenance cost of software, disincentivize the creation of offline desktop applications (it’s far cheaper to make a web app where you just change CSS to “modernize it”), and naturally the fact that GNU cannot be relied upon to remain the same/compatible for more than a week is why “the year of the Linux desktop” never came and never will. Thanks to WINE/Proton, the safe Linux target is now win32. As long as people target Windows and macOS, Linux remains that “other” option. The Linux kernel tends to remain compatible with nearly any user land, and therefore with appimage, it may finally be possible to release software for GNU… maybe…
Yes! I can't stand web based apps.