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by aphextron 3098 days ago
>The solution I want is a Linux OS, a WM with a good, cohesive, long term vision, and an easy way to build apps within at vision — something like a native Electron minus the memory and CPU overhead. I believe Google could do this.

This is literally MacOS/Cocoa/AppKit minus Linux plus BSD
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jkmcf 3098 days ago
More or less. Not sure about appkit, but the Apple dictatorial control bothers me. E.g., Apple apps on iOS have tight integration unavailable to other apps, and they don’t improve their apps for power users or broader use cases.

Also, the first thing I do on non-GNU/Linux systems is install GNU tools :)

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aphextron 3098 days ago
>More or less. Not sure about appkit, but the Apple dictatorial control bothers me. E.g., Apple apps on iOS have tight integration unavailable to other apps, and they don’t improve their apps for power users or broader use cases.

This is what drove me away from the whole ecosystem, iOS included. The fact that all of their APIs are closed source headers only is a complete nightmare. I'd rather spend my time working with open Web standards than digging through some arcane Apple manual page.

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lobster_johnson 3098 days ago
Or GNUStep, if it had ever taken off. API-compatible with lots of Cocoa code. Unfortunately, it's not a complete reimplementation, and nobody uses it.
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