• mub@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    Hold up. Is this the Electron that is effectively just google chrome running web apps ? I thought this was undesirable, it being bloated and slow? I’ve noticed a few server apps starting to use Electron, which seems like a bad idea. What have I missed, and why is it so important?

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      4 days ago

      SSD is still supported, just tested Spotify and Flathub’s Electron test app in a VM with Plasma.

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    4 days ago

    now to wait out the years for old game launchers and wine to follow suit, and years more for proton to get it…

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        4 days ago

        electron/cef apps doing cross process rendering can’t display sooo

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            Then you’re either not using the native wayland driver, or you’re running apps that don’t use cross-process rendering. Try Ubisoft Connect or Jagex Launcher. Ubisoft Connect just displays a tiny window with nothing in it, but is probably supposed to show an error message, and Jagex launcher just shows a black screen, according to this comment.

            So unless you use a wine version patched to include the cross-process rendering code that was apparently already developed by Collabora (which I think is located here), you’re not gonna get these apps to work.