When there's doubt about feature requests, I side with conservative choices because I hate bloated software.
The Windows version is an online installer that always fetches the latest version from the update server. It's based on Google Omaha, the same technology that also Chrome uses for auto-updating. I wrote a blog post about this [1].
It uses PyQt instead of Electron. I was very tempted to use Electron, but its startup time is prohibitive. I wrote a blog post about this as well [2].
The Windows version is an online installer that always fetches the latest version from the update server. It's based on Google Omaha, the same technology that also Chrome uses for auto-updating. I wrote a blog post about this [1].
It uses PyQt instead of Electron. I was very tempted to use Electron, but its startup time is prohibitive. I wrote a blog post about this as well [2].
[1]: https://fman.io/blog/google-omaha-tutorial/
[2]: https://fman.io/blog/picking-technologies-for-a-desktop-app-...