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		croes on Sept 19, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Web apps are better than no apps I wouldn't call a an Electron app strictly a wep app, because you can control the browser version it uses. For a real wep app it's the user's choice.

master-lincoln on Sept 19, 2023 [–]

Agree, electron != web-app. It's a native application that I need to install on my local machine with a platform specific binary. A web app can be accessed immediately from any browser on any machine with network access.

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