<story><title>AMD Is Currently Hiring More Linux Engineers</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=AMD-Hiring-More-Linux-2021</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>emilsedgh</author><text>You know I have so much mixed feelings about Electron apps.&lt;p&gt;One one had, the performance really sucks.&lt;p&gt;On the other, there&amp;#x27;s no way we would&amp;#x27;ve had Spotify, Slack, Teams, and all these big apps supported on Linux.</text></item><item><author>glouwbug</author><text>Electron apps</text></item><item><author>stepbeek</author><text>Damn. What are you working on that needs such a powerful machine?</text></item><item><author>azalemeth</author><text>My current workstation is a dual-Xeon Gold 6252 with 1 TiB of ram. The next one will be either Threadripper Pro or Epyc. AMD have just knocked it out of the park; I want to reward them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kyro38</author><text>Like this dude said [1]&lt;p&gt;Electron app memory usage: 150 MB&lt;p&gt;Native app memory usage: 0 MB (because you never ship it)&lt;p&gt;1: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;jamonholmgren&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1105876480930734086&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;jamonholmgren&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1105876480930734086&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>AMD Is Currently Hiring More Linux Engineers</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=AMD-Hiring-More-Linux-2021</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>emilsedgh</author><text>You know I have so much mixed feelings about Electron apps.&lt;p&gt;One one had, the performance really sucks.&lt;p&gt;On the other, there&amp;#x27;s no way we would&amp;#x27;ve had Spotify, Slack, Teams, and all these big apps supported on Linux.</text></item><item><author>glouwbug</author><text>Electron apps</text></item><item><author>stepbeek</author><text>Damn. What are you working on that needs such a powerful machine?</text></item><item><author>azalemeth</author><text>My current workstation is a dual-Xeon Gold 6252 with 1 TiB of ram. The next one will be either Threadripper Pro or Epyc. AMD have just knocked it out of the park; I want to reward them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sudosysgen</author><text>In my experience, the performance of Electron Apps is even worse than WINE.</text></comment>