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I often see people talking about the fact that they like a certain open-source application, but 'it's a shame it's on Electron'; what does this mean? Is it a privacy thing or a resource thing?

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[โ€“] Helix@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, and since the devs obviously are either too inept to change this or don't care, they probably never will โ€“ this "idea about a runtime mode" issue is open since 2014.

2014 was the same year Microsoft ended support for Windows XP.