From what I understand, each instance of an electron app essentially needs its own copy of the electron framework to work (which includes a web renderer, and javascript engine). So we&#x27;re talking at least 50MB per instance, for applications which may have been 10MB if written in a native language. When you start running many applications, it can certainly add up. Users do notice this kind of stuff, they are just too adaptive to bad user experiences.<p>As for downloads, I remember using dialup and only getting one 1MB file per hour. It would take a lot of patience to even download a 10MB app on that. I don&#x27;t tend to leave my computer on downloading overnight these days though, and I &#x27;only&#x27; get 1MB&#x2F;s (dslreports.com says I&#x27;m &quot;faster download than 60% on DSL in australia&quot;).