On PC, do you generally prefer using online services (e.g., messaging) through web app interfaces or through standalone programs?
On one hand I feel like individual programs offer better performance than Web 2.0 shit running in a browser tab, but on the other hand. I dislike cluttering my computer with a new program for every service.
Web app interfaces are the feature.
>>54805392
"Apps" on PC are just tedious, if you're talking about like the Windows Store applications for Facebook or whatever
Web applications are pretty versatile and fast these days, there is nothing wrong with being delivered a service via browser
>>54805430
I'm talking about a full-fledged program, not "PC apps." A specific example would be using Thunderbird to check my work e-mail versus our webmail portal via browser.
What I would say is "wrong" with the browser service in that case is that it's less functional than a standalone program and tends to work a bit more sluggishly. Hell on the performance front I could mention something like Mutt which has a far smaller resource footprint than a web app running in a browser.
Single program for single job.
For messanging I use irssi with bitlbee+libpurple.
For email and RSS feeds I use mutt and a script that locally sends RSS fetches through procmail that end up in different mboxes.
For anything text editing/programming related, vim.
If it only has a web interface without a public API it's shit; if it's chat related and it doesn't have any way to make third-party implementations (see whatsapp) it's shit; if it only comes with a GUI, it's shit.
>>54805506
So basically your angle on this is "there's no clutter if you only use services that integrate into your specialized tools." Fair enough. Shame that those are falling by the wayside as protocol fragmentation is all the rage.
>>54805591
Yeah, unless it's something extremely specific that has reason to require something, i.e. a GUI for something that deals with graphics.
Otherwise I just won't use something that forces me to use a browser or a GUI to use.
Of course I'm part of the autistic minority, but that's how I think computers should be used.
I also do not mind protocol fragmentation, as long as it can be reimplemented in something that's groupable, again taking messanging services as example, libpurple. I do think it's retarded but that's how things are going.
