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MacOS, and Linux, and Windows? Let me guess: it's some web-electron-app-native-things, right?

Yes it is.

Not gonna replace (native) Alfred for me, no.

Equally, it's free. Alfred wants me to pay for it again to upgrade to the newest version, but I'm feeling like I kind of don't want to sink more money into it ..

I've been using Alfred for probably 7 years or so, every single day, and I can't imagine not using it. Even if it had cost double what it does, I still think it's worth it.

I got the lifetime supporter pack for about 40 bucks and I've been using it for the last 6 years or so with free upgrades. Not a bad investment for something that you literally use almost every single day.

tbh, ive been hoping that a paid launcher for windows would come along at some stage because all the current ones only half fit my needs and are probably going to stay that way for a while since they only developed in someones free time

Alfred as a launcher it's free and way more efficient than spotlight. But just as the comment above, paid version is really nice and worth that price. Even deserve more. There is a website packal.org for workflows. It's amazing. Really miss fuzzy search on Gnome-shell or windows search.

I once was a fan of electron until I ran some apps on a low end surface with little disk space. Something like react native for the desktop could become a huge success.

There is work being done on Universal Windows Platform support for React Native, which will let you publish not just on Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile but on the Xbox One.

Btw. do you guys know that MSFT building next version of Skype with React Native? Mindblowing, innit?

There's https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos for OSX and, as mentioned, also Microsoft's https://github.com/ReactWindows/react-native-windows for Win10/UWP

I was super sold, ready to install. But then realized that too.

Electron apps drain my mac battery super fast. It's a pity.

That must be the fault of the app than the Electron framework itself.

You might think, but it seems all electron apps are resource hogs.

What does seem to be in the app's control is whether it is fast.

See VS Code and Atom; huge difference in performance but both will chew up your battery.

I think it's caused by Electron being so "easy". Anyone without much experience in CS can write desktop applications with it. Those who do have the CS experience tend to use different frameworks.

So even if Electron is a solid foundation, there is probably a bias towards inexperienced developers in who it attracts to work with it.

Agreed that this is essentially the "Atom of Alfred" with the web container. Seems interesting but Alfred is also an extremely polished product so many years in the making. As an existing Alfred user, it doesn't look good enough to make me switch.

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