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I have a suggestion for you that helped me. Try running Android OS like Prime OS (https://primeos.in) in virtual box and you can run those Android apps with low memory usage(I'm assuming that they offer the same experience in Mobile or that you are okay with limited functionality). I set this up for my wife as she kept complaining that her 8 Gb RAM was quickly consumed by Chrome, Slack, Spotify and other apps.

Now the virtual box memory limit is set at 3 GB and she has no complaints. Obviously this is not for power users but it helps a lot when there is a severe shortage in memory



I though about it, as a workaround. But realistically:

- my base ram consumption is 2Gb, so it would make 5gb with the VM, giving me 3gb for: firefox, and IDE, thunderbird, telegram, stremio, libreoffice, nautilus, veracrypt, liferea, gnome calendar, keypass, dev tools such as linter/dev servers/formatters, tilix, veracrypt, youtube-dl, jupyter, other VM I use for work... Even if I don't use them all at the same time, that's not a lot real estate. It used to be enough. When I used sublime instead of vscode, didn't have 4 communications apps and so on. You gotta hand it to the electron community: their software do bring good features.

- The ergonomics would be terrible for certain softwares. For chat, it would be alright (no notification is ok with me), but for stuff like dynalist, I need to be productive

- It's slow to use. You can feel the reaction time with every action. Android is slow in itself, but in an emulator, you want chain too many actions


That's a lot of functionality! How are you handling it? I expect it to get worse as more and more electron apps keep showing up.


Well, would a shared electron runtime make things better [0]?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22774088


Yes and no.

Yes if people used it, but no because people would probably not.

One of the reason electron is so easy to package: it creates a big blog of statically linked everything. If you start having to play the packaging game correctly, you get back to the same problems other run time had.

So my guess would be most users would not do it.


> How are you handling it?

What do you mean?




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