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by pjmlp 1379 days ago
You are missing the picture that they provide full development experience stack for desktop development, similar to Framework/Kits/Components on major mainstream desktop and mobile OSes.

Like always many of these experiences fail short by focusing on Look and leaving out the other 90% of the development experience.
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smoldesu 1379 days ago
GNOME and Qt both offer full-fledged UI frameworks. It sounds like you haven't given either a try before, but they're both quite capable. Programming for them doesn't feel any different than writing a Cocoa UI or an Android app or a website. It's just... another target.
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pjmlp 1379 days ago
They do, but Pop_OS new Rust based destkop doesn't, that is the point.

Have been around the Linux world long enough, all the way back to Slackware 2.0, and when getting FOSS software meant buying CDs from Walnut Creek.

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