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submitted 19 hours ago by Tablaste@linux.community to c/linux@programming.dev

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It's easier to disable all the garbage than remove the garbage?

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[–] artyom@piefed.social -2 points 11 hours ago

Now everything runs in an electron wrapper that can run on any platform or in the browser.

No. If it did Google would be winning with their incredibly weak Chromebooks.

No normal consumer even knows how to install a program today

What is a "normal consumer"? All of them? No. Enough of them that many platforms are dependent on that knowledge, yes.

I am qualifying my statements based on interactions with my coworkers

That sounds like an extreme bias.