OSS at some point forgot that the web + hosted UX is great for saas companies because they can more easily charge rent. But the web isn't great for building input UX (it's all bloat + jank and you have to completely reimplement the input elements to do anything useful, on top of shifting sand).
moving UX back to desktop thin clients would be leapfrog innovation over the saas companies. I include things like MS word as a 'thin client'. MS word 2003 was more responsive than any web interface for just typing. slack has like 2 features and is still somehow sinking into the ocean unless you have a supercomputer because of electron.
the data can be shared or backed up somehow sure; that's just file hosting with a collaboration layer maybe. but desktop UX would be a superpower for any tool that needs powerful input
OSS at some point forgot that the web + hosted UX is great for saas companies because they can more easily charge rent. But the web isn't great for building input UX (it's all bloat + jank and you have to completely reimplement the input elements to do anything useful, on top of shifting sand).
moving UX back to desktop thin clients would be leapfrog innovation over the saas companies. I include things like MS word as a 'thin client'. MS word 2003 was more responsive than any web interface for just typing. slack has like 2 features and is still somehow sinking into the ocean unless you have a supercomputer because of electron.
the data can be shared or backed up somehow sure; that's just file hosting with a collaboration layer maybe. but desktop UX would be a superpower for any tool that needs powerful input