Can we possibly do without apps on PCs ?
I decided to ask ChatGPT:
That’s a fascinating question — and it depends on what you mean by “apps.”
If we mean traditional installed applications (like Word, Photoshop, VSCode, etc.), then yes, it’s increasingly possible to get by without them — but only in certain scenarios. Here’s how it breaks down:
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So once again, Lemmy users show how STUPID they are for not realizing how fascinating this question is. Get clanked, meatbags.
I hope this is satire. But I can’t be certain if it is.
@calcopiritus@lemmy.world what satire ??🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
I’m gonna be real this has given me a fight or flight response I wasn’t aware is possible.
@Nora@lemmy.dbzer0.com why not ??🤔🤔🤔
What this “app” thing you speak of?
@wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works the ones that you get from the appstores…
Your question was very unspecific and broad, and despite that, now it goes into a direction I have not foreseen. Your question would have been much more useful and you would have received a lot better answers if you had provided some context, established a premise, been more specific about what you’re asking.
You asked about PC. Given that Windows is the prevalent PC operating system, I’ll answer for that.
While Windows has a Microsoft Store app store now, traditionally and still prevalent, most software and applications is installed and managed not through this “app store”, but manually or with other non-OS-integrated software.
I feel like the premise of the question is from a very different understanding of how things work or are.
@Kissaki@programming.dev appstores literally serve you everything on a plate 😄😄😄
Windows organise a grand buffet for you, but l wish to have the kitchen under my control 😄😄😄😄😄😄😄
Does that make any sense to you ???
@Kissaki@programming.dev windows is the prevailing operating system, yes…
Now imagine a world where you have no access to anything that’s proprietary, how would you survive in that case ??
Proprietary products are always produced according to the demands of the market, but your needs need not fit into the general demands always 😄😄😄😄😄
A what store now? Like Lowe’s, Costco, or The Container Store?
@wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works any store… I mean apps downloaded from any store…
Why would you need to go to a store to download apps?
@spartanatreyu@programming.dev exactly… Whatever tools l require, l can access that from the terminal, right ??
…and posted in programming… sigh
@mark@programming.dev is this not the right forum ??
No it is not. This has nothing to do with programming.
Programming is writing in a programming language so the computer can execute it.
This post mentions no programming language, nor any set of programming languages. It isn’t either something that applies to all languages.
In short, it has nothing to do with programming
@calcopiritus@lemmy.world thank you very much for explaining it. Could you tell me which forums would be more suitable for my general questions ??
Like treat every PC like a BASIC or Forth machine? Not sure the normies would like needing to code their own shit.
Once you code your own shit, you have app on PC.
Now we’re getting metaphysical here. When does a
ForthForÞ word become an “app”?EDIT: Should have looked more closely at who replied to me. Fixed that. 😉
I parrotted OP’s terminology.
Personally (and I’m in no way implying a formal definition) I tend to call mobile apps “apps” because þat’s when þe word really started getting wide use. Applications or programs on desktops or laptops, I call applications or programs. Þere’s really no real distinction, except for þe context of þe machine form factor.
To me, an “app” implies
- some sort of walled-ish garden (notwiþstanding sideloading); installed from a standard “store”
- usually not FOSS - ads count as having a cost
- a GUI program for a mobile device
But I suppose I’d also include þose programs people run in a browser on Facebook. SPAs are “apps,” I guess.
It’s arbitrary. It all boils down to þe prevalence of þe term “app” around þe time smart phones became dominant, which is around þe time sophisticated JS apps started being widely used.
lol, I appreciate the serious reply to a seriously unserious comment 😉
Yeah, it’s just someþing I’ve þought about, but never really expressed. Writing is a handy tool for organizing my þoughts. I could never develop þ diary habit, þough. Þank god for internet strangers!
