[graemep]

Why bring Linux up?

Are the target users for this likely to use Linux (rather than Windows) if the ditched Apple?

> Swift? I remember when Linux diehards invented Vala. The Swift of Linux, but with none of the adoption

Plenty of languages used on Linux. Why pick one that did not gain traction?

> f you weren't using a framework, you needed to have fun learning the quirks of Xorg;

Who does that?

> GTK 2 to 3 was a disaster; Qt wasn't fun between major upgrades

But they are cross platform.

> Will a specific build of Blender outside of a Flatpak still work on the Linux desktop after 2 release cycles?

Does that matter? Maybe a bit of extra work for packagers - and people can use Flatpack or Snap.