Oh, it gets better. Even the default Weather app shipping with Windows 11 is also an Electron pile of trash that uses ~520 MB of RAM. Just let that sink in. 500MB of RAM just to show you the weather forecast for the day and week. That was my entire system RAM of my Windows XP gaming rig.
Same for the Widgets app, it's not only bad because it shows you news and ads when you open it, it's worse because it's also, you guessed it, an Electron app.
Some VP in Redmond must be off their meds.
I assume Microsoft just can't find devs to write C#, their own damn programing language for their own OS, and one of the dozens of frameworks they have for Windows GUI, that they need to resort to using Electron for what are just Windows-only apps.
The Weather app in Windows 11 a UWP .NET Native wrapper around WebView2 controls. It's exceptionally silly that it's basically just a web browser with predefined tabs and that it uses so much RAM, but it's not Electron.
Good lord, that's crazy, haha. You'd think with all of their different frameworks, one would have been more suitable than starting from scratch with a browser tab, jeez.
I recently upgraded to 10 because of Steam requiring it in a few weeks, and it's been an adventure. Lots of crashes and restarts that I didn't ask for. I really don't know who exactly modern Windows is for, because I'm a gamer and programmer and it's not been good for either of those tasks...
Windows 7 was solid and I almost never had issues out of it. It booted and got out of the way.
Same for the Widgets app, it's not only bad because it shows you news and ads when you open it, it's worse because it's also, you guessed it, an Electron app.
Some VP in Redmond must be off their meds.
I assume Microsoft just can't find devs to write C#, their own damn programing language for their own OS, and one of the dozens of frameworks they have for Windows GUI, that they need to resort to using Electron for what are just Windows-only apps.