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might be a form of Jevons Paradox (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[–] piranhaconda@mander.xyz 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Note, I don't know how comprehensive this wiki list is, just quick research

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_using_Electron

From those, I'm only currently using a handful.

balenaEtcher, Discord, Synergy, and Obsidian

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Spotify, Steam

Balena Etcher is a software crime though.

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

Steam UI uses chromium embedded framework which saves 50% of the ram and startup time.

[–] slappyfuck@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What’s wrong with balena etcher?

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

It’s hundreds of megabytes for something that unetbootin, image writer, and others do in a couple of MBs.

[–] Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The viability of linux isn't dependent on them though

[–] piranhaconda@mander.xyz 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Agreed. I wasn't the one that claimed that