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What's your experience with Electron alternatives (lemmy.ml)
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Electron is a widely hated framework on Linux, but what about the alternatives like Neutralinojs?

In their own words: In Electron and NWjs, you have to install Node.js and hundreds of dependency libraries. Embedded Chromium and Node.js make simple apps bloaty — in most scenarios, framework weights more than your app source. Neutralinojs offers a lightweight and portable SDK which is an alternative for Electron and NW.js. Neutralinojs doesn't bundle Chromium and uses the existing web browser library in the operating system (Eg: gtk-webkit2 on Linux). Neutralinojs implements a secure WebSocket connection for native operations and embeds a static web server to serve the web content. Also, it offers a built-in JavaScript client library for developers.

Do you experience alternatives like Njs to blend more in the desktop layout, install less junk, use less memory, are more compatible with Wayland,...?

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[+] -9 points 2 years ago (9 children)

I will catch flak for this, but discord works fine. You could be fooled into thinking it’s native. Audio, video, attachments… pretty seamless. Zoom sucks ass though.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    You could be fooled into thinking it’s native.

    It doesn't look like a native app at all though. It's not really following any operating system's design guidelines.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Is zoom Electon?

    It looks like shit and feels like shit. I thought it was native tbh... given how chunky UI is. Looks like GDI programming to me. Or they took design from Android 2 and ported it to Desktop.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    It starts to break down on Wayland though, screen sharing doesn't work, drag and drop looks to work but errors when sending, and probably other things.

    Edit: Yes I'm already running it with --ozone-platform-hint=auto

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't like Discord much, but don't understand the dislike for the app. Perhaps because I use it rarely.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    The company sucks, but the app works fine to me. I don’t get the hate either. I use the flatpak version in Linux and don’t feel any friction for it being an Electron app. There are native flatpak apps that cause me grief.

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