Nemeski@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 3 days agoDiscord is killing its Electron app that can eat 4GB of RAM on Windows 11, and the Rust rebuild uses just 290MBwww.windowslatest.comexternal-linkmessage-square80linkfedilinkarrow-up1353arrow-down14
arrow-up1349arrow-down1external-linkDiscord is killing its Electron app that can eat 4GB of RAM on Windows 11, and the Rust rebuild uses just 290MBwww.windowslatest.comNemeski@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square80linkfedilink
minus-squarePika@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38·3 days agoman I love that they are ditching electron but, they “just” fixed the discord linux client to properly update and now they are rehauling it? can’t wait to get this update 3 years from now.
minus-squarehenfredemars@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoI got frustrated enough with the weirdness of the Linux client that I eventually ended up using a pinned browser tab. At least then the data collection monstrosity is sandboxed. I believe Flatpak helps, too.
man I love that they are ditching electron but, they “just” fixed the discord linux client to properly update and now they are rehauling it? can’t wait to get this update 3 years from now.
I got frustrated enough with the weirdness of the Linux client that I eventually ended up using a pinned browser tab.
At least then the data collection monstrosity is sandboxed. I believe Flatpak helps, too.