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Re:Electron 2.0.0 beta by imtringued on Thursday February 22, 2018 @08:16AM (#16437309)
Usually the alternative to many electron apps is the web version which lacks 5% of the features but is 10 times more efficient.
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Re:Electron 2.0.0 beta by yoz-y on Thursday February 22, 2018 @03:50PM (#16441262)
Native and Electron apps have two advantages over web though. Fist one is, that they do have access to the file system. This makes a whole range of applications (like Git Kraken) possible. The other is that an application has an icon in the taskbar/dock. When somebody pings me on slack I know where to go to read it. When somebody calls me in hangouts, I have to go fishing for the tab or window with the site open.
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Re:Electron 2.0.0 beta by nkkollaw on Thursday February 22, 2018 @06:27PM (#16442579)
Not true.

One example of a service that probably _could_ have a web version is Spotify, but they only offer their service via their Electron app.

Apps I care about are VSCode, Atom, Spotify, Slack.

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Re:Electron 2.0.0 beta by Can_Not on Thursday February 22, 2018 @08:49PM (#16443526)
Spotify actually does have a web player.
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