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I really despise Electron apps. They always seem bloated and antagonistic toward the native user experience on my platform (eg. inferior keyboard support, hard to integrate with custom tooling like AutoHotkey, etc.). Have I just not used the right ones?

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I'm not a fan of them, but they do make desktop linux a bit more viable insofar as you will have desktop binaries for a lot more services than you otherwise would without electron

Visual Studio Code is probably one of the best received Electron applications. Tried it?

I'm not him, but yes. It's certainly nowhere near a native Mac app, and apparently that's the absolute best Electron has to offer.

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