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by LeoNatan25 1032 days ago
Here is the sad truth for you: they still don't exist. Open these apps in a Chrome tab and you get the same shitty experience. Open them in Firefox (or a WebKit based browser), and you get the same experience, with much less resources used.
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I was going to say, most Electron apps (as opposed to say, VS Code) offer the user no benefits over just using the website they're wrapping.

They do offer benefits to the app purveyor, because apps have access to your system that you'd never allow a web site to have.

> they still don’t exist… same shitty experience

There are many additional features a web app is capable of when installed, like native notifications, file system access, file associations, etc.