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I Don't See a Reason to Switch to Windows from Linux Anymore in 2025 (itsfoss.com)
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[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 7 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Technologies like Electron make it easier for app availability: Controversial opinion but True

I do agree, but currently Electron is great for apps the way Flash was considered great for the web. It solves one problem, but creates a bunch more.

In itself, Electron is pretty bloated*, but I don't dare check how many versions I have installed because different apps have stuck with older ones. I'd really like to see a less resource consuming, backward compatible alternative to Electron.

* From my thrifty perspective of keeping older hardware alive with Linux, that is. On your high grade, best-of-class gaming rig, mileage will definitely vary.

[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It's quite a storage hog having multiple 500+ MB electron blobs. Unfortunately that's a platform agnostic issue now.

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 1 points 1 hour ago

That is true, definitely not an OS exclusive problem!

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 3 points 21 hours ago

yeah true its spinning a instance of the Chromium browser which is where the bloat is at.