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by igorstellar 1511 days ago
> That's a barrier to entry that doesn't exist in the PC ecosystem.

Unless you're using some native language like C++ and cross-platform UI framework like QT or js/Electron you have even bigger diversity problem in the PC ecosystem. There are Windows (x86/arm), macOS (x86/arm), linux (variable desktop environments), Chrome OS, ...

You would need to provide builds for all the OS and hopefully also provide Store versions (Windows Store, AppStore, Snap)

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to be fair that is probably a major reason that we haven't seen the year of the linux desktop, and for that matter no other OS has really been able to break the Windows/Mac duopoly in desktop OSes.