Yep, this is exactly the type of application I don't care if it eats my RAM for a couple of minutes if it does its job well. In my experience it does. I just use `dd` if I have access to it but otherwise etcher does the job for me, for example on Windows machines.
Agreed. Little GUI utilities that I'm likely to only use for a few minutes every now and then can be Electron. Doesn't bother me a bit.
If it's something I run frequently for short spans (a calculator, a search-to-launch tool, that kind of thing) or leave open for long stretches of time (so, messengers, most kinds of document or text editors editors, anything that lives in the system tray) then it's outside that narrow sweet spot in which Electron doesn't suck.
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Yep, this is exactly the type of application I don't care if it eats my RAM for a couple of minutes if it does its job well. In my experience it does. I just use `dd` if I have access to it but otherwise etcher does the job for me, for example on Windows machines.
Agreed. Little GUI utilities that I'm likely to only use for a few minutes every now and then can be Electron. Doesn't bother me a bit.
If it's something I run frequently for short spans (a calculator, a search-to-launch tool, that kind of thing) or leave open for long stretches of time (so, messengers, most kinds of document or text editors editors, anything that lives in the system tray) then it's outside that narrow sweet spot in which Electron doesn't suck.