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I avoid any desktop app that uses electron or similar. Electron is still a hog, and most things written in electron have alternatives. I don't use the slack desktop app for this reason, as an example.

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So you use the browser app which uses approximately the same amount of memory / resources?

Minus the browser. Each Electron app isn’t just the running web app but also the browser instance too. Where as a web app running in a browser wouldn’t consume its own browser instance.

That browser instance alone can make quite a noticeable difference.

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