I often see people talking about the fact that they like a certain open-source application, but ‘it’s a shame it’s on Electron’; what does this mean? Is it a privacy thing or a resource thing?

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Electron apps is essentially running web apps wrapped as a desktop version.

worse even: it includes different copies of chromium in each app

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Yeah, and since the devs obviously are either too inept to change this or don’t care, they probably never will – this “idea about a runtime mode” issue is open since 2014.

2014 was the same year Microsoft ended support for Windows XP.

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