Cut Meta some slack. They’re not Nvidia. They’re only a $1.5T company. They can’t make everything native.
hahah, 1.5T ! peons !
Tip: you can use the WhatsApp web site for text messaging (I don’t think it works for audio/video?) and if you want to use it in a standalone window you can “install” it as a web app (in most browsers). It’ll use way less RAM running in your existing browser than running a separate electron instance.
(I don’t think it works for audio/video?)
it does
Since when? Because last I used it Video and Audio calls required their native app (their excuse was their encryption couldn’t run on the website)
I thought you meant attachments
It’s called enshittification for sure.
It’s beyond that. It’s surveillance software
That’s part of enshittification I’d say. It’s all about squeezing your users for as much money as you can, and surveillance is part of that.
The one fucking app of theirs that was done really well and they kill it.
Microsoft might as well deprecate their UI Toolkit now. The best 3rd party app to showcase it is dead and even their own apps are just web wrappers nowadays 🙄This could mean great news to Linux WhatsApp users.
i use the web version and it works just as well, while also benefiting from not being a native program that can steal more data than just a tab in your browser
Can it do video and audio calls?
oh I genuinely have no idea actually, I don’t do calls on desktop
There are so many better alternatives than both meta and windows. It’s enshitification personified.
Thinking on going back to linux sooo bad. lol
I recently had a driver issue that prevented my Linux from booting. It was still less frustrating to deal with than Windows in general.
(The solution was literally one button press: In the menu to select what to boot, I pressed “down” in order to load the previous kernel version and work with that until a patch was available. Everything worked just fine.)
Lol trash
How much ram were the native app consuming?
If it is any more than 300mb it would be too much. But these days, big companies don’t care about RAM usage…
Just download more RAM.
And in all seriousness, poorly written programs hoarding all the RAM amidst a huge RAM shortage is selfish and vile.
190MB, according to the article. And when it was idling, it would be only tens of MB
So, like Steam, half of all (“native”) E-Mail clients and almost all Markdown readers? I mean, there’s a fucking Bash script around to correctly display Markdowbn in the shell.
What a time to compute.
to be fair steam is only partially a webview
open us up to do calls from the webview then, so i can do it in linux too.
It’s weird that they pulled the plug on that version, considering the Mac version is still native and they recently released a native iPad version as well as an Apple Watch version now.
Thankyou Microsoft
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This part actually doesn’t depend on Microsoft
Shame, would something like Ferdium fare better in that case?
I usually only used the webversion anyway?
First (feels like) everyone complained about apps (for example restaurants) and demanded a web page.
Then there’s a fully functional web page and everyone looses their mind because nothing of value (seriously, what could the native app do better?) was lost.Can’t get upset if I never used WhatsApp.
