Subj : Re: Halt and Catch Fire
To   : Moondog
From : Nightfox
Date : Sat May 07 2022 14:53:57

  Re: Re: Halt and Catch Fire
  By: Moondog to Nightfox on Sat May 07 2022 12:56 pm

 Mo> Unless you are doing something hardware intensive such as gaming, video
 Mo> editing or 3d modeling or cad. Served apps are the way to go. No worries
 Mo> about software patches at the server end. That was one of the nice things

 Mo> Downsides are bandwidth and enough memory and cpu utilization set aside to
 Mo> run everything

I can see how served apps can have their advantages.  But I was going to say, latency due to bandwidth is something that annoys me about online apps.  I have a device powerful enough to run it, and generally I'd tend to prefer running it directly on my device so there are no latency issues.

And I do a lot of what you mentioned above - Gaming, video editing (usually just video transcoding and upscalign), and I also do software development sometimes.  Those all are things where it's useful to have all that stuff installed locally.

Nightfox

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