I’ve said this on reddit before, but once for a joke I tried to make a windows program to play doot.wav during October at random, and tried programming it on Linux.
Sinds playing audio and working with the system tray was tricky, I ended up with electron.
So yeah, an atrocious 120 mb application to play a 6kb wav file with a Math.random()
. I don’t remember the memory consumption, but it was probably just as gross.
Maybe they’re using xdg-dirs? That might work, won’t it?
Not really, but it does highlight it’s written for views.
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