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by mook 1744 days ago
Video games are immersive experiences: you're interacting with only the video game when you play it (or at least, that's the design), and you don't experience the jarring from task switching because you don't switch.

For desktop applications — especially a password manager whose main use involves switching to it quickly to find something to enter into a different application — there is a lot of that resistance when you go between apps that feel totally different.

(I currently work on an Electron app — but that's because it was already one when I joined the team, and it's in a space where time to market for multiple platforms is definitely more important than a good polished experience, at least at the stage we're at. Sad as that is.)