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RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components (www.windowslatest.com)
submitted 3 days ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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  • Windows Latest discovered Discord and other Chromium and Electron-based applications with high RAM usage
  • RAM usage spikes from 1GB to 4GB on Discord both in and out of voice chat
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[–] tal@lemmy.today 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I mostly use terminal-based software on Linux.

I think that the only programs I use much that embed a web browser are:

  • Firefox

  • Steam

  • Some games that are Web-based and which I only run one of at once (Neo Scavenger, some RPGMaker-based games, probably some others).

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[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (7 children)

This is a trade off. Many of these apps work on osx and Linux because they are browser-based. If they go back to native apps you lose that portability.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

electron was a steaming pile of shit 8 years ago. still is. what's changed?

our acceptance of shitty corporate software.

[–] dukemirage@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Electron is fine for what it does. It's just that every problem was turned into a nail and Electron is the hammer.

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[–] miellaby@jlai.lu 1 points 2 days ago

Very good explanation.

[–] DannyMac@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (8 children)

I'm tired of this! How can we start our own RAM foundry--is that the right term? Surely there's a YT tutorial somewhere.

[–] jimerson@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Big RAM hates this one little trick!

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