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by whalesalad 329 days ago
This is an unintended benefit of being on a Linux workstation - the only client available is the browser.
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This kind of thing is one of many reasons I refuse to install Zoom/Discord/etc apps. Stay in your sandboxed browser tab.
If there's an app that started life in the browser, a desktop/native app can only make it worse. I don't use native apps for Youtube, Amazon, Slack etc for this purpose.
Notion and all these kinds of apps are available for Linux. But yeah, I don't recommend using them. Just use them in the browser.
There is no "native" app for Linux.
By your definition, there is no "native" app for any platform. It's all just Electron.
in the context of this discussion, no. regardless of it being electron or not, there is no application that you can run on linux that could potentially abuse your system and leverage your microphone, screen capture, etc.