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Re:Slack comes to Linux as a snap by danieldk on Thursday January 18, 2018 @02:04PM (#16180216)
But you know as well as anyone else that the problem with browser-based apps is that they take hundreds of megabytes of memory. And unfortunately, memory is still scarce (no thanks to Intel for not supporting LP-DDR4 in mobile SKUs).
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Re:Slack comes to Linux as a snap by toyg on Thursday January 18, 2018 @05:41PM (#16182305)
Meh, LP is nice to have but you can live fairly happily without.

My real beef with electron apps is that they invariably lack support for all sorts of goodies (accented-character menus, OS-specific shortcuts, text auto-expansion, etc etc...) that regular desktop apps just get as standard.

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