The OP clearly means not hosted remotely / not requiring a server to set up, but somehow everyone thinks this is a great opportunity to mention that since it uses the same underlying front-end technology, there's no distinction, and it's actually worse.

Good thing this is hacker news, or I might have missed out on a barely-relevant pile-on of commenters letting me know how terrible Electron is!

I'd prefer to get what I bought - without "free" Chrome.

Analogy: when people are deadly allergic to peanuts, they make very very sure the food they buy doesn't contain peanuts before buying it. If they can't get an answer, they go buy food from someone who can answer their question.