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submitted 7 months ago by andrewta@lemmy.world to c/linuxmint@lemmy.ml

linux mint web app at 2 minutes 46 seconds

please explain it to me like i'm 5 because i just don't really understand the difference. if there really is a difference.

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[-] Bongles@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago

Not much. It's just visually separated into it's own "app". I haven't used the feature in mint but maybe you also miss out on any extensions you have installed in your browser. Maybe it'll look a little less like a browser along the top.

I use a similar feature at my job through windows/edge and it's just so I can treat this one thing like it's own application. In that case it has it's own icon on the taskbar, which i have pinned so I can open it quickly, the browser UI is gone, it's just the web page in the window, I can get to it without looking through tabs, and it allows me to do whatever in the browser (like close it entirely) without affecting this window.

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