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Children don't have Slack and Outlook open. Gmail in a web browser and Discord, maybe. My old M1 Air works just fine for productivity workloads, and has for yea

by Kirby64 8mo ago

Children don't have Slack and Outlook open. Gmail in a web browser and Discord, maybe. My old M1 Air works just fine for productivity workloads, and has for years.

vunderba 8mo ago
Is Slack that much worse of a memory hog than Discord? Aren’t they both built on electron?
- Kirby64 8mo ago
  Not sure about slack vs discord, but browser Gmail is almost certainly less memory hungry than Outlook. And that’s probably enough of a difference by itself.
- alwillis 8mo ago
  You can make a pretty good electron app or one that kinda sucks. Slack is in the latter category.
  - vunderba 8mo ago
    VS Code (or rather VSCodium in my case) is also electron based but it's been relatively snappy in my experience - though I don't use a lot of third party plugins.
    - alwillis 8mo ago
      Say what you will about Microsoft but the performance of VS Code is really good.