Comment by jcelerier

> Many modern JS/Electron apps

made my blood boil every time I had to use them. Even the poster child for a good Electron app, VS code, while packed with cool features, feels so sluggish next to Qt Creator that it distracts me from my work constantly when I use it.

Thankfully, on my Linux desktop, the actual number of such apps I actually need is precisely zero, everything has at least one (much snappier) Qt or GTK alternative.

> just try to use element.io in a Tor Browser on a normal xDSL connection and you'll see what i mean (unless it's improved recently).

I just tried without Tor and counted 5-6 seconds between the time where I clicked on "Open in your browser" and the page actually showing up here: https://element.io/get-started, so I'll happily pass