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by the_lucifer 1772 days ago
> We the users subsidize faster development cycles with wasted CPU and memory, laggy interfaces, and strange, non-native UX.

I can absolutely attest to that with a relatively underpowered computer (4 gb of RAM). I can barely use 2 electron apps after which my computer grinds to a crawl (I’m running VSCode and Slack mostly). I have stopped using the discord desktop app and exclusively use the website now.