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Electron apps (and other apps that uses Chromium Embedded Framework) are commonplace these days and they requires GPU acceleration. They'll crash if launched on system without gpu acceleration. Sure you can pass a command line argument to disable gpu acceleration to those apps (e.g. `--disable-gpu` on most electron apps and `--no-zygote` on apps that use chrome embedded framework like spotify), but you can't expect average users to know how to do that.



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