Re:The Web Is Eating the Desktop (2017)
by westoncb on Monday July 12, 2021 @02:53AM
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I only upgraded from my 8GB laptop a couple months ago. And I did run into issues with memory frequently—but here's the thing: I would be running 4 or 5 Electron apps at the same time and they were fine; the memory issues were always from Chrome, so I had to be careful not to keep too many open Youtube, Github, Amazon, etc. tabs open.
A heavier Electron App, e.g. Slack, would be equivalent to maybe two Youtube tabs, out of the ~50 tabs I would have open.
It's not ideal, but it's nowhere near as egregious as comments on HN would leave you to believe.
> it’s also about being a poor citizen on the computer and making things worse for all the other applications running at the same time
I'm not familiar with this argument. How is it a poor citizen aside the dubious claims about excess memory usage? Or is this just a repetition of that argument?
(Incidentally I've also had the misfortune of using MS Teams recently, and I would fully support anyone's complaints about it.)
A heavier Electron App, e.g. Slack, would be equivalent to maybe two Youtube tabs, out of the ~50 tabs I would have open.
It's not ideal, but it's nowhere near as egregious as comments on HN would leave you to believe.
> it’s also about being a poor citizen on the computer and making things worse for all the other applications running at the same time
I'm not familiar with this argument. How is it a poor citizen aside the dubious claims about excess memory usage? Or is this just a repetition of that argument?
(Incidentally I've also had the misfortune of using MS Teams recently, and I would fully support anyone's complaints about it.)