I don't mind the ability to open an app in a tab instead of an app tray. Beyond that the security sandbox (or the perceived one) I'm a big fan of. I like a clean desktop and I put all of my data on servers so I can access my stuff from just about anywhere. But then optimization be damned we need to move fast and push features. Wow now I need 6gb of memory just to open 4 tabs. Wow now we need browsers to unload tabs to conserve memory. Wow apps used to run under 1mb with a GUI. Wow I can launch a single threaded C app with less than 1mb committed including mapped libraries.

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C shared libraries are so baller. But we "vendor" entire OSes now so idk. I think the next app container will just be the OS as well. I've had many a docker container fail to build on me. I think people don't realize how fragile this all is.