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by hansvm 2032 days ago
Plenty of people only have 2-4GB of RAM, and Slack eating up 360MB along with a couple other bloated apps and some God-foresaken autoplaying video ad can easily start requiring swapping and slow a computer to a crawl.

Sure, people could spend more money to mostly sidestep the issue (supposing they didn't have any workloads which actually benefited from all available RAM), but that doesn't make it a non-issue.
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coding123 2031 days ago
I'm guessing you're not going to run Slack unless you're at a company. And I'm guessing if you have 2-4GB of RAM you are not running a company issued computer. And if for some odd-ass reason you are running on a personal computer with 2-4 GB of RAM and NEED slack, why not just run it in a chrome tab?
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MaxBarraclough 2031 days ago
It will use about the same amount of memory when run in a Chrome tab, as that doesn't much differ from the application version (essentially just a bundled Chromium browser). It would save you from running two different Chromium browsers at once, but I don't think the saving is all that significant. (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25167153 )
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