Need to completely revamp Electron version management

[GarboMuffin]

We're currently using Electron 22. That causes a lot of problems.

Windows

• Performance not as good as could be, security not as good as could be, generally not actually that bad though
• Noteworthy breaking change since our current version: dropping Windows 7/8/8.1 support
• We'll need a toggle for people to keep supporting that
• Video stream is always paused when window gets obscured, regardless of background throttling setting

macOS

• In addition to various minor performance issues like Windows, macOS 26 has major problems with all but the most recent Electron versions
• Every year, they've dropped support for a major macOS version. So we could need to list several versions. But people wanting support those old macOS would have to tolerate poor support for macOS 26...

Linux

• Typical various minor performance issues
• Electron 38 does Wayland by default. There's various regressions here.

[GarboMuffin]

Might be interesting if we just automatically built the latest release of every Electron version in the format we want and put those on packagerdata automatically, or at least make it a lot easier than it is now

[Romascka]

We're currently using Electron 22. That causes a lot of problems.

Windows

• Performance not as good as could be, security not as good as could be, generally not actually that bad though
• Noteworthy breaking change since our current version: dropping Windows 7/8/8.1 support
• We'll need a toggle for people to keep supporting that
• Video stream is always paused when window gets obscured, regardless of background throttling setting

Yeess... I'm tried to package my project from desktop program, but this is not work. Tried from website, also not working....

[GarboMuffin]

That's likely unrelated to what this specific issue is about (even though our Electron version handling is suboptimal, we are not aware of any case where the apps fail to start entirely). If you give us more details, we can help you out with that