I’ve tried Lemoa: it’s truly atrocious to put it mildly. Besides, I couldn’t compile it on my GTK3 distro, there is no .deb, and using Flatpak means wasting hundreds of megabytes for what should be a simple, lightweight client. If I want to waste RAM, my browser is already running so I might as well use the web app from my instance.
I’ve tried Lemonade: the Python code doesn’t run (again, GTK4 dependencies), and the Flatpak doesn’t even display anything.
Liftoff is Flutter. No thanks…
NeonModem isn’t complete.
Servitor is command line. I love the command line, but that’s just the wrong environment for this.
Is there really nothing on Linux?
I’m kind of surprised there are Linux clients at all. You might just have to use the PWA until one of the clients becomes more mature.
Maybe try Voyager (previously wefwef) in compact mode?
I’m surprised there isn’t a stable, real, lean client for Linux - or MacOS, or Windows. Lemmy has been around for what, 3 or 4 years now, and it’s not rocket science.
Web apps disguised as native programs and Android apps running in an emulator make no sense because the memory wastage means you’re better off opening another browser tab and running the real web app. Flatpak / Snap / AppImage apps are native clients, but make no sense either for the same reason. Unless the wasteful local client is so much better than the wasteful real in-browser app that it’s worth the memory expenditure of course.
Oh well, it works well enough in the browser I guess :)
personally i wouldnt use ‘lazy’ and ‘flatpak’ together in the same sentance.
but i hear your criticism and i 100% agree about those drawbacks.
