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.
Pah, only 1.2GB? How can it even move a mouse pointer or accept keyboard input?!?
Oh it’s doing plenty. Just not for you.
Not too sure about the ‘doing nothing’ part.
True.
What Windows 11 pc exactly? 😎
I’m shocked to learn that a dedicated browser always running in the background for a chat app uses 100x the memory and resources
Anything owned by facebook is already the worst app on whatever device it’s installed on.
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
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.
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)
microsoft committments to ui frameworks can be gotten in bulk, for free at your nearest flea market
People using Meta’s products are masochists.
“Yes, daddy, please violate my privacy even more and manipulate me into hating myself and making me addicted to your shit.”
My government and employers would not move away from WhatsApp, so, short of lobbying, I am forced to remain.
Well most people dont have any other option since 100% of your friends and families are exclusively on WhatsApp , whatsapp had early mover advantage it was free and easy to use so now everyone just uses it
so did my-space
And how long did it stay around even though there was a better option? And how much more penetration into everyday life does WhatsApp have today? Right.
Social media and chat applications are different, better comparison would be Skype or MSN Messenger or AIM.
If your friends can not be arsed to install an app on their phone for you, I got some bad news.
Actually it’s not just friends ( we did shifted to telegram a while back ) most people where I am from use WhatsApp grand parents to grand parents to even some college official group ( yeah Ik )
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.
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.
Wouldn’t Windows 11 be the worst app on your Windows 11 PC? 🤔
It’s probably just teams, right?
bitlocker and the encrypt without permission resulting in loss of all files still takes the cake for me
windows update boot loop is a close second
It’s all sharepoint under the hood.
Only for some file storage. The Teams app is a memory hog and hot garbage all on its own.
I was joking for sure. Most of M365 is a hodgepodge of Exchange and Sharepoint, including Teams. But that’s all server side, so doesn’t matter to the client. They could make a the clients not terrible even if the server is hot garbage.
I once read a story about a Teams team in microslop Teams, was hilarious.
Technically… Yes.
