A few years ago, Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos revealed how he thinks of local PC hardware as antiquated, ready to be replaced by cloud options from companies like AWS and Azure.

Bucha Bull to me.

  • ftbd@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    What’s wrong with VSCode? There’s an open source version (codium) which works just as well for me.

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        2 months ago

        I’m also using codium, can you say what the problems with electron apps are? Other than some dependency issues I ran into (but I was on Arch so it was probably my fault), I don’t know about problems with electron.

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          2 months ago

          Electron apps consume a lot of RAM and CPU clockcycles relative to native apps. Less annoying on a fast desktop PC, but moreso on a laptop, especially less powerful ones.