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Since you are asking, you are always welcome to develop/recreate some high quality desktop Linux applications. Half-joking.

by nirv 5y ago

asaddhamani 5y ago
I don’t know many Linux applications that people pay for
mastrsushi 5y ago
I've thought of making a DE apps for mobile linux entirely with something like electron. But like asaddhamani said, Linux doesn't really pay. I'm not 20 anymore, I don't really fantasize about Red Hat finding my "brilliant" projects and taking me under their wing.
- nirv 5y ago
  > I've thought of making a DE apps for mobile linux entirely with something like electron. Oh, please don't. /s > Linux doesn't really pay. It depends. Professional DAWs come to mind first: Reaper, Bitwig, Renoise. Professional video editor DaVinci Resolve Studio. Full-featured suite is certainly well beyond the capabilities of a single developer, but I'm sure there's a lot of specific pain points in these professional niches which you could cover. Also, Sublime Text/Merge are massively popular, while being freemium. You mentioned Electron, so I suppose you're more inclined to web stack: there's a rapidly[1] growing[2] number[3] of WASM-based[4] apps[5]. They're web-native, multiplatform by nature, easily implemented as SaaS'es, and may be packaged as "native" applications. [1] https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-by-3x/ https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26323966 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26323966 [3] https://modfy.video/ https://modfy.video/ [4] https://fileconverter.digital/ https://fileconverter.digital/ [5] https://video2gif.vercel.app/ https://video2gif.vercel.app/
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borplk 5y ago
Linux users have a "I could totally do that with bash better in a weekend" attitude. They don't pay and they will also shame the author with "how dare you evil monster not make this libre free open source ... this is worth like $3 max". Worst group to make paid software for (yes I say that as a linux user, I know the group I'm talking about).

Since you are asking, you are always welcome to develop/recreate some high quality desktop Linux applications. Half-joking.

by nirv 5y ago

Since you are asking, you are always welcome to develop/recreate some high quality desktop Linux applications. Half-joking.

asaddhamani 5y ago

I don’t know many Linux applications that people pay for

mastrsushi 5y ago

I've thought of making a DE apps for mobile linux entirely with something like electron. But like asaddhamani said, Linux doesn't really pay. I'm not 20 anymore, I don't really fantasize about Red Hat finding my "brilliant" projects and taking me under their wing.

nirv 5y ago
> I've thought of making a DE apps for mobile linux entirely with something like electron. Oh, please don't. /s > Linux doesn't really pay. It depends. Professional DAWs come to mind first: Reaper, Bitwig, Renoise. Professional video editor DaVinci Resolve Studio. Full-featured suite is certainly well beyond the capabilities of a single developer, but I'm sure there's a lot of specific pain points in these professional niches which you could cover. Also, Sublime Text/Merge are massively popular, while being freemium. You mentioned Electron, so I suppose you're more inclined to web stack: there's a rapidly[1] growing[2] number[3] of WASM-based[4] apps[5]. They're web-native, multiplatform by nature, easily implemented as SaaS'es, and may be packaged as "native" applications. [1] https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-by-3x/ https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26323966 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26323966 [3] https://modfy.video/ https://modfy.video/ [4] https://fileconverter.digital/ https://fileconverter.digital/ [5] https://video2gif.vercel.app/ https://video2gif.vercel.app/
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borplk 5y ago

Linux users have a "I could totally do that with bash better in a weekend" attitude. They don't pay and they will also shame the author with "how dare you evil monster not make this libre free open source ... this is worth like $3 max". Worst group to make paid software for (yes I say that as a linux user, I know the group I'm talking about).