Agreed. I know Electron isn't ideal, but as a Linux user, I have a pretty hard time complaining. In the pre-electron world, something like Slack for linux either wouldn't exist, or would be several versions behind other platforms and have some goofy UI that didn't match the rest of your desktop. At least we have it and it works.
I completely agree, I'd rather have a memory hungry app than no Linux version at all. Slack is an odd one because you can run it in a browser, but things like 1Password are also good examples. I'd rather buy more ram than have companies pretend Linux just doesn't exist at all, at least it gives me options.
This so much. I'm not fan of electron apps, but it's 1000x better to accept the chromium memory usage than a Windows VM memory usage. And I think that sharing the code between web and desktop also gives us very usable web apps (at least in case of Slack).
Not a very good one then, and never heard of any of those. The big ones like Slack do run in a browser because the whole point is to access an online service.
