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uszo165@futurology.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

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

www.windowslatest.com

uszo165@futurology.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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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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    Preferred by scammers

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    Oh it’s doing plenty. Just not for you.

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    I’m not using it nor the Facebook Messenger app, but rather their messenger in the browser. Meta is an evil necessity in my country because the businesses I deal with are mostly active on Facebook, and almost all people are tethered to it, and I have to use a facade where I don’t have to give Zuck anything about myself.

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    Not too sure about the ‘doing nothing’ part.

    • 1984@lemmy.today
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      True.

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    Pah, only 1.2GB? How can it even move a mouse pointer or accept keyboard input?!?

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    Anything owned by facebook is already the worst app on whatever device it’s installed on.

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    I’m shocked to learn that a dedicated browser always running in the background for a chat app uses 100x the memory and resources

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    What Windows 11 pc exactly? 😎

    • CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca
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      That one.

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    My Windows 11 PC? Where?

    My Linux PC doesn’t have WhatsApp installed. Someone tell me where this Windows 11 PC is so I can retrieve it and install Linux on that too.

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    Ew. Why not use the browser version

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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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    People using Meta’s products are masochists.

    “Yes, daddy, please violate my privacy even more and manipulate me into hating myself and making me addicted to your shit.”

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      My government and employers would not move away from WhatsApp, so, short of lobbying, I am forced to remain.

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      Well most people dont have any other option since 100% of your friends and families are exclusively on WhatsApp , whatsapp had early mover advantage it was free and easy to use so now everyone just uses it

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        If your friends can not be arsed to install an app on their phone for you, I got some bad news.

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          Actually it’s not just friends ( we did shifted to telegram a while back ) most people where I am from use WhatsApp grand parents to grand parents to even some college official group ( yeah Ik )

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        so did my-space

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          Social media and chat applications are different, better comparison would be Skype or MSN Messenger or AIM.

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          And how long did it stay around even though there was a better option? And how much more penetration into everyday life does WhatsApp have today? Right.

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    Counterpoint: no, it’s not, because I’m not stupid enough to install it.

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      Or own a Windows PC!

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        Sadly, I have one that I need for some freelance work. But I don’t use it too much.

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      Born in the PWA it was.

      (I figure this limits what it can scrape from any OS.)

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    Wouldn’t Windows 11 be the worst app on your Windows 11 PC? 🤔

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      It’s probably just teams, right?

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        bitlocker and the encrypt without permission resulting in loss of all files still takes the cake for me

        windows update boot loop is a close second

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        It’s all sharepoint under the hood.

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          Only for some file storage. The Teams app is a memory hog and hot garbage all on its own.

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            I was joking for sure. Most of M365 is a hodgepodge of Exchange and Sharepoint, including Teams. But that’s all server side, so doesn’t matter to the client. They could make a the clients not terrible even if the server is hot garbage.

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        I once read a story about a Teams team in microslop Teams, was hilarious.

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      Technically… Yes.

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    Oh, it’s most likely doing something. Just nothing you would want.

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    microsoft committments to ui frameworks can be gotten in bulk, for free at your nearest flea market

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