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And the enshittification continues.
But the sooner Electron dies the better, there is literally only one Electron based program that works well and that is VS Code, but you've got to blame Microsoft for being so incompetent that they never even set the standard for a desktop UI after years of monopoly that people turned to just mushing Chrome into a box.
There was a time where about 70% of the apps I ran on my Windows machine were written in GTK, and that was long before I even touched Linux.
Ahhh GTK and Qt! The true cross-platform experience! This brings back some cozy memories