Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?

Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by DaiPlusPlus on Sunday May 17, 2020 @03:01PM (#23214360)

And Winamp is 4MB (after removing the stock plugins that I don’t need, like modern skins and the long-broken media library internet lookup stuff).

How big is Spotify now?

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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by jleahy on Sunday May 17, 2020 @03:08PM (#23214423)

Spotify is 273MB (on Linux at least), 70MB for the binary and 137MB for Chrome, plus some other bits and bobs.

  $ pacman -Qi spotify
  Name            : spotify
  Version         : 1:1.1.10.546-4
  Description     : A proprietary music streaming service
  Architecture    : x86_64
  ...
  Installed Size  : 272.79 MiB

So at least it's smaller than Slack.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by Harrrr on Sunday May 17, 2020 @04:00PM (#23214890)

I have a noob question, but how do proprietary apps (IE: Slack) make it onto the AUR without having an official binary?

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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by dialamac on Sunday May 17, 2020 @04:19PM (#23215049)

There’s nothing to really block much on the aur. There are some guidelines in naming and no duplicates, no maliciousness etc that are enforced, but that’s it. But anyone can upload a build script (PKGBUILD) for anything.

If you want to see how it’s done search the package name and AUR and you can see the build script right on the website.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by Harrrr on Sunday May 17, 2020 @04:25PM (#23215109)

TIL! Thank you :)

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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by detaro on Sunday May 17, 2020 @04:03PM (#23214908)

Both Slack and Spotify do provide Linux versions, even if not/less supported officially.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by Harrrr on Sunday May 17, 2020 @04:27PM (#23215134)

Thanks! I hadn't tried Arch yet, but I just saw the pkgbuild script on the site (didn't know it was there) and it makes since now :)

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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by kmarc on Sunday May 17, 2020 @05:36PM (#23215709)

There are many PKGBUILDs on AUR that cactually download rpm / deb packages and unpack the binaries and deps from it.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by egypturnash on Monday May 18, 2020 @01:41AM (#23218772)

iTunes, in all its bloated, much-maligned media-managing glory, is a mere 188 megs on my Mac.

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