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Chrome + Slack alone took up ~3 GB of RAM on my 4 GB machine and forced me to upgrade.

I use Slack in the browser instead. No more Electron crap.

I turned slack into a chrome “shortcut” (which seems to be a PWA minus the service worker), which lets it run in chrome instead of a separate electron instance, but also have a separate app window.

Ive also found having slack be ~another chrome tab, instead of a copy of chrome via electron, to be really nice

So what did you replace Chrome and Slack with…? </snark>

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