Oh it’s doing plenty. Just not for you.
Not too sure about the ‘doing nothing’ part.
True.
Anything owned by facebook is already the worst app on whatever device it’s installed on.
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.
I’m shocked to learn that a dedicated browser always running in the background for a chat app uses 100x the memory and resources
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.
Preferred by scammers
What Windows 11 pc exactly? 😎
That one.
Ew. Why not use the browser version
There is no other version. An electron app is a browser app.
You can still just open it in the browser
How will that help?
microsoft committments to ui frameworks can be gotten in bulk, for free at your nearest flea market
Pah, only 1.2GB? How can it even move a mouse pointer or accept keyboard input?!?
The app is always lagging behind the web version too, it’s just not worthy it.
What do you mean, the app is the web version now
If that’s the case, why not just use webview, instead of packing a whole separate browser?
Obviously not aiming that at you op, but if someone has an insight on this, I’m curious.Sorry, it was a while ago since I used the app version from the Store.
A great alternative is to create a Matrix account and connect a WhatsApp bridge bot with the WhatsApp account, that way you can use any lightweight Matrix client. (It also works cross-platform)
Counterpoint: no, it’s not, because I’m not stupid enough to install it.
Born in the PWA it was.
(I figure this limits what it can scrape from any OS.)
Or own a Windows PC!
Sadly, I have one that I need for some freelance work. But I don’t use it too much.
Oh, it’s most likely doing something. Just nothing you would want.
