If you’ve been around, you might’ve noticed that our relationships with programs have changed.
Older programs were all about what you need: you can do this, that, whatever you want, just let me know. You were in control, you were giving orders, and programs obeyed.
But recently (a decade, more or less), this relationship has subtly changed. Newer programs (which are called apps now, yes, I know) started to want things from you.
Idk man, Linux seems not like this at all. But windows and the rest of corpo-software-hell, yeah.
The www is the same for everyone no matter which OS you use sadly. The need for accounts doesnt go away completely on linux but at least not for anything OS related. Syncthing was a great example mentioned here. P2P, serverless, accountless, resource efficient, private, secure. Peak software design.
Yeah, FOSS doesn’t have the incentive and have different ideological roots