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Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why: no “Starting” screen and 70% less RAM, even with two accounts signed in


Discord’s Rust client opens before the Electron app finishes loading, skips the Starting screen and uses 290MB of RAM with two accounts.

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