diff --git a/apps/desktop/electron/main.ts b/apps/desktop/electron/main.ts
index 2103811bcb..7cd87d8a99 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/electron/main.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/electron/main.ts
@@ -4277,8 +4277,21 @@ function resolveWebDist() {
 }
 
 function resolveRendererIndex() {
-  const candidates = [path.join(APP_ROOT, 'dist', 'index.html'), path.join(resolveWebDist(), 'index.html')]
-  const present = candidates.filter(fileExists)
+  const asarIndex = path.join(APP_ROOT, 'dist', 'index.html')
+  const webDistIndex = path.join(resolveWebDist(), 'index.html')
+
+  // A packaged build ships dist/ twice: inside app.asar AND — because
+  // asarUnpack lists dist/** — beside it in app.asar.unpacked. Prefer the
+  // unpacked tree, matching the resolveWebDist()/unpackedPathFor precedent:
+  // it is the copy the embedded dashboard serves and the copy a repair
+  // rewrites, while pointing the window at the asar-internal index.html is
+  // exactly how lazy chunks end up fetched from a path that cannot serve
+  // them (#93479). Every window loader shares this resolver (main, overlay,
+  // quick), so the ordering fix covers all of them. Dev is unchanged:
+  // unpackedPathFor is a no-op outside an asar, so both candidates collapse
+  // to APP_ROOT/dist and the original order is preserved.
+  const candidates = IS_PACKAGED ? [webDistIndex, asarIndex] : [asarIndex, webDistIndex]
+  const present = [...new Set(candidates)].filter(fileExists)
 
   // index.html and the hashed chunks it names are one generation. An update
   // that replaces only one of the two shipped copies (app.asar vs