List of tolerable Windows apps
- Ripcord (shareware, $20): A third-party Discord and Slack client with incredibly low resource usage. Was running into scenarios where games that used to run smoothly on my PC stopped doing so due to Discord getting bloated, and Ripcord was exactly what I needed. The UI has very odd button placements and padding, but luckily a lot of elements can be hidden from view resulting in a fairly minimal window.