> What is the distinction you want me to make? That it has a different icon in your OS task bar? That's one! So, it's already not exactly the same. Figuring ou

> What is the distinction you want me to make? That it has a different icon in your OS task bar? That's one! So, it's already not exactly the same. Figuring out the rest shall be left as an exercise to the reader. > My argument is that by sharing resources with the browser they're running anyway, that the battery/CPU/RAM drain will be reduced. A browser is a lot of overhead and using less browsers at once is always good. You are describing one trade-off. Your argument is valid, but if you follow the links you yourself posted, it's not actually the browser engine that does all the draining, it's the content it is running (i.e. you can disable some functionality and the problem is mitigated). The base RAM overhead of running Electron compared to something like Qt isn't that big either. > Users generally expect that when they download a desktop application, that it's native, has minimal overhead and performs well. I don't think that's true, but even if it was, so what? Users need to lower their expectations.