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Just found out that you can CTRL+T in fedora's installation GUI to browse web pages in firefox, amazing!
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What you discovered is that today's mediocre developers implement everything in web browsers, or web brower-like frameworks like Electron, and set them up to masquerade as normal applications, but with 100x the disk, RAM and CPU footprint.
Only if you use electron. There are lots of light(er) weight alternatives.
Any browser or html/css-based rendering is still 100x more computationally expensive and RAM-bloated than a native approach.
This is true. Perhaps native cross platform UI development should be as easy as web based desktop apps.