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Re:Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser by koonsolo on Friday June 12, 2020 @06:52AM (#23497958)
On the other hand, they don't require admin rights, disk space or installation time, and are platform independent (including for example chromebooks)
Re:Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser by umaar on Friday June 12, 2020 @07:17AM (#23498100)
I'm all for web apps, but does CS actually require admin rights?

> disk space

CS just downloaded 185mb of network resources for me to play. I would have thought those resources are stored on my disk, and not just in memory.

> installation time

That 185mb of resources took ~1 minute to download. By the time it had finished, it told me the server was full.

Regardless this is still very impressive.

Re:Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser by koonsolo on Friday June 12, 2020 @07:49AM (#23498275)
I'm not going to claim that one is better than the other, because it's all about tradeoffs.

But I'm sure more people played this right now because of the low barrier to entry.

And the admin rights might not even be technical. Not a lot of people are fond of installing games on the laptop from work.

But like I said, everything has tradeoffs.

Re:Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser by andybak on Friday June 12, 2020 @09:00AM (#23498747)
> But I'm sure more people played this right now because of the low barrier to entry.

This is the key point. If I'd seen a post about CS with a zip of an executable I would have passed.

Why? Because it probably wouldn't have run correctly or I would have had some other issue with it.

Let alone checking the provenance and worrying about malware.

Re:Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser by gsich on Friday June 12, 2020 @08:37AM (#23498585)
>I'm all for web apps, but does CS actually require admin rights?

No. The cracked version(s) that are played in schools and whatnot are usually just a zip file you extract and run.

Re:Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser by orionblastar on Saturday June 13, 2020 @01:58AM (#23507188)
More like a portable CS that can be placed in the documents directory and run from there. I remember my son's cousins installing software while not as admin on my Windows PC by installing in the documents directory. CS, AOL Chat, etc.

A good way to get malware as well. I could never trust those cracked versions. One cracked version made CS 1.6 with Navy Seals looking for bin Laden, which I thought was fun.

Re:Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday June 12, 2020 @07:17AM (#23498102)
The first two are trivially solved by portable applications (AppDirs, Application Bundles, AppImage, etc.). Platform independence is only kinda true, as many of these things don't actually function correctly on anything but Chrome, so they effectively target just one platform.
Re:Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser by 32gbsd on Friday June 12, 2020 @07:45AM (#23498260)
Omg the modern web has become a monoculture!
Re:Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser by Klinky on Friday June 12, 2020 @10:31AM (#23499586)
Chrome runs on many different platforms.
Re:Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser by tasogare on Friday June 12, 2020 @07:56AM (#23498317)
Those are all very minors inconveniences. Installation took a few clicks, disk space is negligible for that category of apps (and if it isn’t re-downloading on each access is a more pressing issue). Only the platform thing matters, yet the exemple you give isn’t convincing given it’s super low market share.