[fuzzy2]

On a single PC it probably wouldn’t matter that much, but if distributed at scale, the savings in bandwidth could be enormous. Electron is quite large after all.

Teams shipped with incredibly outdated versions of Electron for a very long time.

[treespace8]

Keeping up the latest electron is f@$king impossible.

It takes months/years to get all clients updated. By then you are already running on an outdated version.

[manquer]

Is integrating auto-update functionality not standard part of distributed application tooling by now ?

[treespace8]

Sure, if the user has proper permissions.

But when you are a small app running on a corporate citrix, APP-V, or whatever locked-down environment you are out of luck.

You will be able to update the app running inside electron without much of an issue. But you won't be able to download and execute a new exe.

[manquer]

Enterprise deployment setups have a lot of their own flavour. However the ownership is on dedicated IT dept to keep the apps updated on your system and rest of the fleet.

Microsoft has the network to train, enable and get IT to administer these kind changes. They are after all able to get windows patches in fairly regularly at higher frequency than ever before in windows 10.

Sure there were will be some small minority like still active XP users , you sell extended support or whatever to either enable them or you can stop support.