[TeMPOraL]

> A more modern system would let you run Electron apps without being irritatingly slow.

That's the problem though: it won't. There is no modern system on which Electron apps run without being irritatingly slow.

[fragmede]

I get what you're saying, but Electron apps on like a Core2Duo is unusably bad. On a modern system with plenty of ram they're much more usable.