Why are telegram and discord such memory hogs even when closed to the tray?

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@markybuns Discord is an electron app, so it comes with an entire Chromium browser, Telegram Desktop is just bad I think

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@noiob I wish there was better alternatives to these apps but I guess my best bet is to just open them on the browser?

@markybuns actually I'm not sure what your Telegram is doing, mine's at 200MB with zero memory pressure

@noiob Probably a problem on linux then, but even on windows my discord never went that low

@noiob I have many many chats with lots of media, I never delete chats. Could that be the reason? But wouldn't it only load stuff to memory if I opened the chat?

@markybuns Telegram does load most stuff dynamically so idk

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