I feel the opposite. I expect things NOT to work on linux.
Just wait until they figure out Mac has been an OS just as long as MSDOS
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The MacOS of 7.x< is nothing like the MacOS of the modern era (based on BSD). It is a drastic change and old software wasn't even compatible with the new one.
Tbf I haven't used a MacOS in like 10 years. I thought about picking up a used Mac mini just to relearn MacOS again (or maybe just VM it)
I recently got a iphone work phone and it is so backwards compared to android. I don't understand apple anymore
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Lol scrub
VSCode is super light on resources on linux, I have two running right now and they don't break the top ten on btop (often). It can be done right, rarely is, but it can be. Generally electron is badly used, probably a skill issue, seeing as the skill is locked behind useless documentation, proprietary BS and whatever, but the ppl who made it actually make it work, might be black magic or chicken sacrifice...
Someone's actually gonna take this seriously, and they're right.
There's Stretchly, a break reminder tool, so has to be always running. Made with Electron, but surprisingly takes like 20 MB of memory.
Amongst the apps mentioned as bloated on Windows were Teams, Discord (major offender) and WhatsApp. The latter is a curious case because a Universal Windows app existed (now being deprecated I guess?) that was more memory efficient than the Web wrapper.
And in case, someone in interested there is a terminal client for WhatsApp (and Telegram) called nchat. Sure, it is not at feature parity with web client (images is a big problem, for obvious reasons) but the simple fact that a third party client taking so little resources exists is a damning indictment of Meta. It shows that resource efficient clients are possible (provided the parent company junks the metaverse).
Thank God this guy got disliked to hell.
5 downvotes are absolutely nothing compared to that level of idiocy.
Most applications that are Electron either only support Windows or also want to support Android, iOS and Web. I assume there is some toolkit out there that supports everything, but honestly HTML5 is more well known and tested.
He's a magician, because reading this, I aged 10 years and grew a metastatic tumor.
I'm pretty sure you guys just took the bait. This is either satire or ragebait.
I hate the Windows API so much. There are like 100 million function that all start with a capital letter and take a kajillion arguments just to do the most simple thing imaginable (see CreateThread). And there are twenty different typedefs for the same type (PSTR, LPSTR, tchar* all point to char*). Also all variables and function arguments should start with their types, like hWindow if the window is a HANDLE.
I hate this joke of a programming interface so much, I hope everyone sticks to programming with POSIX and platform-agnostic libraries.
EDIT: And also, did I mention that if you want to use it, you get all of it or none of it? It's literally a single header file named Windows.h. You get just that and take it or leave it.
Yeah, not because they saw a way to develop for Win/Mac/Linux/Android/IOS all at the same time and went yeah, we'd take some of that.
Naw, They REALLY wanted to dip their toes in that 2013 extra 1% of traffic pool.
Someone obviously missed their nap and is having a tantrum.