I have a vastly overpowered machine - i7 6900k, GTX 1080 and electron apps definitely don't feel as snappy as apps using traditional GUI toolkits. They almost all have typing latency, loading screens, etc... a pain all around.
My blood pressure decreased by a huge amount the day I replaced discord & slack by ripcord... and it's also much better in term of UX when you are on a ton of different instances.
and that's not counting that I would also need discord next to it. I had to buy 64gb on that machine because of all this fuckery - add a few additional work workspaces and a 16gb machine which is already more than what the general public have and it's unuseable.
Just checked in the website of the biggest french retailer, and 7 out of the 10 most currently sold laptops have 8 gigs of ram for instance.
My blood pressure decreased by a huge amount the day I replaced discord & slack by ripcord... and it's also much better in term of UX when you are on a ton of different instances.
e.g. the difference in responsivity is huge : https://streamable.com/ori2yg
and ripcord does so in 87 megabytes of RAM with while slack does it in 758 : https://i.imgur.com/xivK3gr.png
and that's not counting that I would also need discord next to it. I had to buy 64gb on that machine because of all this fuckery - add a few additional work workspaces and a 16gb machine which is already more than what the general public have and it's unuseable. Just checked in the website of the biggest french retailer, and 7 out of the 10 most currently sold laptops have 8 gigs of ram for instance.