alt Hacker NewsWho both has a computer too slow to handle electron applications ,and is spending 20$ a month on Claude code.
>There are downsides though. Electron apps are bloated; each runs its own Chromium engine. The minimum app size is usually a couple hundred megabytes. They are often laggy or unresponsive. They don’t integrate well with OS features.
A few hundred megabytes to a few gb sounds like an end user problem. They can either make room or not use your application.
You can easily buy a laptop for around 400 USD that will run Claude code just fine, along with several other electron apps.
Don't get me wrong, native everything ( which would probably mean sacrificing Linux support) would be a bit better, but it's not a deal breaker.
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Claude desktop already doesn't support Linux.
Me, because my work gave me a crappy dell that can barely run the stripe dashboard in the browser. I could put in a request for a Mac or something faster but this is the standard machine everyone gets for the company. It helps me be sympathetic to my users to make sure what I develop is fast enough for them because I definitely am going to make it fast enough for me so I don’t shoot my brains out during development.