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I understand your point. "Program" is a more wider term. Javascript executed in your browser could be a program too. App is just a short term for a standalone program with a GUI, IMO.

It's just how languages change with time. For example what we simply call "libs" today used to be called by their full name "program libraries". You don't often see someone calling them like that anymore. I feel that communication nowadays requires us to constantly check the context in order to avoid misunderstandings. It's maybe a reason why I don't write that much online anymore.

I think that the question is primarily about Desktop Apps, since this is the Linux community.

I would assume that "application" (or its short form "app") implies some kind of GUI.

What about gitk & gitg?

Any hardware vendor taking Linux support seriously is good news!

They are implicitly asking about known compatibility issues.

I'm afraid that there is no profit for Nvidia to justify the work for supporting older hardware.

I wonder how it is compared to Clementine/Strawberry.

Why use big words when can use comic speak? Make brain no hurt! Boom!

Visual Studio Code [...] is (partly or totally, I'm not sure) open source.

Visual Studio Code is like Android is relative to the Android Open Source project. As far as I know, VS Code comes with an additional Microsoft layer of telemetry and closed source additions in its binary form. Not to mention the license which basically assumes the right to do almost anything to the underlying system. That's why projects like VSCodium came into existence.

Please anyone, correct me if I'm wrong.

I’m one of those evil people who works in marketing.

Yet here you are, complaining about the ads in Windows. Are you sure that you can go without them? :-D

Is he just using words for not saying anything?

Changing Biden's mind won't automatically feed those people. Providing food and basic necessities to the civilians trapped there should be the first priority.

I would at least expect outstanding genocide and human rights abuse topics to be at the top of the list of things needed to be clarified before anything else can be discussed.

Playnite? I would love to use it if it would support Linux.

Then work on one generating heatmaps instead fog-of-war!

This is so much better than the real answer!

Related app, but which can also be used without Trakt: Series Guide.

As I previously said, I don't advocate for buying from Epic. But if it happens that you have some games from their Store (for whatever reason, like ones you got for free) there are alternatives to their client.

What about something like Heroic Game Launcher? I'm not advocating for Epic, just pointing out that alternatives exist.