On: My return to desktop applications

[dragontamer]

I have read it, and stand by what I say.

Desktop applications shine in this performance situation. Video games, 3d renderers, chess analysis, go analysis, deep learning, compiling, video editing.

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If we're talking about "Data moving with you wherever you go", that was a Floppy Disk back in the day. If you want bookmarks to be portable in some kind of modern day setting, you'd store it on your phone and connect that up with your Desktop-app, or maybe keep it on a USB drive in your pocket.

[groby_b → dragontamer]

Once more: There is a privacy concern. "Make thing go fast" wasn't on the list. Performance is not the concern. It's not "data moving with you", it's "data should not be available to third parties"

[gfxgirl → dragontamer]

3d renders might win in the cloud because the default could be a render farm.

they could also be running on the top GPUs where you might locally have some low-end notebook.

I haven't used it but as one example there is Clara.io and even if Clara.io isn't perfect it at least shows a path