Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?
by karatestomp on Sunday May 17, 2020 @04:34PM
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I have a rig powerful enough to run a lot of last-gen games at 4K with high quality settings, and a lot of current-gen ones at mid to high settings and 1080p. The fucking redesigned Steam library lags, none of the animations (why does it need animations?!) are even close to smooth, and there's massive delay on every input. I've never once encountered a move toward webtech, or toward heavier and "appier" JS use in something that's already webtech, and gone "oh good, this works much better now, I'm so glad they did that."
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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?
by Groxx on Sunday May 17, 2020 @06:25PM
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And somehow it's still dramatically better than the Epic Games launcher.
I don't know what these companies are doing. Clearly they're not paying attention though. This is not merely low-hanging fruit that's going ignored, it's watermelons.