[snambi]

The author mostly talk about maintaining packages. Some people say that it is the missing games and other desktop applications. However, we all know that Linux is best OS for development. It has best set of libraries, languages and utilities. Yet, why there not many cool Desktop applications?

I believe the answer is, Linux doesn't have an IDE for Desktop development. Look at windows, they have .net Platform and IDE, Look at Mac, they have Xcode and Android uses eclipse for IDE.

Most of the application developers want and IDE, which is what is lacking in Linux. I hope someone makes an IDE for Linux desktop development.

[rurounijones]

QT Creator for Cross-platform. KDevelop for KDE focused stuff. Not sure what for GNome.

What is wrong with the above?

[snambi]

I didn't know about QT Creator, it looks really good for application development. A lot of people are using Ubuntu for their desktop, including me and my friends. But, Ubuntu's landing page doesn't have a tab called "develop" for leading users to develop applications for ubuntu. So, My impression is linux is a great OS with libraries and frameworks necessary for system development. But, it didn't had the tools to build applications. But, apparently it does. Linux distributions should encourage users to write applications. The best way to do this would be having the information right on their landing page.