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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

WhatsApp is the worst app on your Windows 11 PC right now, eating 1.2GB of RAM doing nothing

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WhatsApp is the worst app on your Windows 11 PC right now, eating 1.2GB of RAM doing nothing

www.windowslatest.com

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

WhatsApp for Windows is a slow, RAM-hungry web wrapper. With Microsoft committed to WinUI, there's no excuse not to build a native app.

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There is no other version. An electron app is a browser app.
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  You can still just open it in the browser
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    How will that help?

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