• noodlejetski@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    why does it matter?

    because most people use more than one program at the same time? fire up that one along with, I dunno, Spotify and Discord and Slack, and suddenly your midrange laptop’s RAM is all but gone.

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      11 months ago

      Same thing happens to me if I were to open each of those apps as chrome tabs.

      The apps you listed provide a web version also. Adding choice to the customer experience is a good thing!

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        11 months ago

        That’s a bad analogy. A browser with 5 tabs is not like having 5 different browsers open.

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          11 months ago

          User experience is not just about optimizing every little bit of your RAM consumption. They’re are plenty of other factors as well

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            11 months ago

            Yes, and UX is bad in web applications. I‘m saying that as a web application developer.