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People that are upset about electron should consider it’s not:
Electron App vs Wonderful Fully Supported Native Linux Application
The reality is that your choice is largely:
Electron App vs No App (maybe running their windows app in wine if you can get that to work)
It’s not like companies are going to go build a native linux app but electron got in their way. It was always electron or no support.
So if you like the app, remember that the ram and the cpu you paid for doesn’t provide value unless it’s doing something. There’s no trophy you get at the end of your life for “most cumulative ram left idle”
What about laptop battery life? More CPU usage = less battery life. WHY DOES NO ONE GIVE A FUCK ABOUT BATTERY LIFE???
The single most reason I switched from Spotify to Apple Music is that I was sick of seeing the Spotify macOS app at the top of the "High Battery Usage" page on Activity Monitor. I also actually noticed less battery life. Fuck Electron. I avoid apps made in it like the plague.
Doesn't Qt provide native, cross platform UI? I agree with your post though.
It could be doing so much more if you hadn't gone with Electron you fuck
Right? Why are people talking like this? You don’t see Kubernetes and more generally, servers being looked at this way. We optimize like hell to make things fast, responsive and resource-efficient but on the desktop we just stopped caring or we just got very spoiled and lazy.
I think proprietary Electron apps better run in browser anyway because of trackers that you can disable via extensions.
I get around this with DNS-based blocking but I do agree with your point.
Some people like to use more than 1 app you know.
Also, RAM is never ever idle. It is used as filesystem cache when not used by programs thus speeding up read accesses significantly.
Honestly even with more than 1 application open it shouldn't be an issue. Maybe with a really old computer, but anything modern really should handle an electron app just fine
This is a damn homicide lmao
Maybe we should make that a trophy