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I Don't See a Reason to Switch to Windows from Linux Anymore in 2025 (itsfoss.com)
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[-] Mwa@lemm.ee 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)
  1. Web-based tools get the work done: agreed,especially when half of these web tools are Electron like number 5
  2. Plenty of distributions to suit your preference: my personal favorite thing about Linux
  3. Steam has a decent collection of Linux Games (& you may get a console): True,And outside of steam will work nicely aswell (like touhou 6 for example like Proton/soda does a great job of running touhou 6 patched with THCRAP)
  4. Proprietary choices on Linux (Better late than never): True and maybe even custom versions of wine (like elemental warriors fork and vanilla wine but vanilla wine cannot run complex apps tho)
  5. Technologies like Electron make it easier for app availability: Controversial opinion but True
[-] haverholm@kbin.earth 6 points 16 hours ago

Technologies like Electron make it easier for app availability: Controversial opinion but True

I do agree, but currently Electron is great for apps the way Flash was considered great for the web. It solves one problem, but creates a bunch more.

In itself, Electron is pretty bloated*, but I don't dare check how many versions I have installed because different apps have stuck with older ones. I'd really like to see a less resource consuming, backward compatible alternative to Electron.

* From my thrifty perspective of keeping older hardware alive with Linux, that is. On your high grade, best-of-class gaming rig, mileage will definitely vary.

[-] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 1 points 49 minutes ago

It's quite a storage hog having multiple 500+ MB electron blobs. Unfortunately that's a platform agnostic issue now.

[-] Mwa@lemm.ee 3 points 14 hours ago

yeah true its spinning a instance of the Chromium browser which is where the bloat is at.

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