Re:Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous
by RussianCow on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @08:18PM
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> Can't find a link, but I've seen people on this website claim that electron apps that are just a web page (and thus don't work offline) are better for Linux on the desktop than actual native applications. Sure, they do mean that cross-platform is essentially free, but you have to rely on someone else's computer for them to work.
This is false, at least in the way you're thinking. Electron apps are written with web technologies, yes, but they generally don't load their UI via the web; all HTML/CSS/JS lives locally on your machine. I don't use the GitHub app, but if it's true that it can't commit without an internet connection, that's just bad design, as opposed to something inherent with Electron.
Re:Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous
by saagarjha on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @03:21PM
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> the Github desktop app can't commit locally without an internet connection
Wait, what? Why?
Re:Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous
by jpindar on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @10:10PM
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FWIW, BitBucket's app can.
Re:Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous
by kwk1 on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @09:56PM
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> Which is one of the big reasons I'm so desperate to move away from fusion360 for personal projects.
I understand the need here and would humbly suggest trying to support development of FreeCAD for this reason. - FreeCAD Dev
Edit:I needed to be clearer, I know fusion isn't electron, but I've had no luck at all using it offline. Very rarely will it work. And unless things changed in the last 6 months, the Github desktop app can't commit locally without an internet connection.