Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?
by fomine3 on Monday May 18, 2020 @03:29AM
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You already can use UWP that has sandbox. Win32 apps can be converted to it.
So no one cares about more security. Most vendor stuck at "just work" Win32.
Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?
by manquer on Monday May 18, 2020 @03:04PM
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Can convert does not mean thats only way to install , as long you give an insecure option your security is still weak .
It is not that OS developers are not improving , for example S mode on surface is a good feature, however as long as adobe’s of the world still abuse my system the problem is not solved .
It is just not older gen software either , Slack desktop definitely takes more resources than web version while delivering broadly the same features Sure it is electron abstraction , however if a multi billion company with vc funding can not see value in investing on 3 different stacks for windows,MacOS and Linux how can most other developers?
Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?
by entha_saava on Monday May 18, 2020 @12:34PM
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Is it possible to run a process (and its children processes) in sandbox manually with only given permissions?
Arguably many users don't know how to use a Windows desktop. But that's not a failure of desktop; that's failure of Windows. They could have provided an easy way to install applications to a sandbox. On Android you can install from apk files and they are installed to a sandbox. If Windows had such a feature easily available, I think most of genuine desktop app makers would have migrated to it. This would have the advantages of the browser and no battery drain, no fan noise, no sluggishness.