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> And again, as you even said, for such a hypothetical sndboxing desktop os, user space needs to be rebuilt in large parts from scratch. Not in a hundred years.
by pdimitar 5y ago
> And again, as you even said, for such a hypothetical sndboxing desktop os, user space needs to be rebuilt in large parts from scratch. Not in a hundred years. There so many things that are still lacking on the linux desktop today that this would at best be yet another experimental toy OS with no real world usability.
From the several toe dips I did with Linux desktop over the years, 99.9% of all user-space GUI programs will not be missed by more than 5000 hardcore fans anyway.
Rust, Zig, Nim, D -- all fine languages, and all gradually travel to having a proper UI toolkit (or solid bindings to the existing ones, more often).
I happen to believe that when the solid foundation gets created we'll see an explosion of high-quality Linux desktop programs. But various problems with Qt and GTK are preventing it (licenses included)... for now.
- InfiniteRand 5y agoBut this is the Linux desktop, if you're not getting paid to use it, and you're not ignoring it to do everything on the command line, you're probably a hard-core fan of some odd niche app
- anoncake 5y agoAlmost every application that supports Linux has been ported to other platforms. Linux is the one big platform no one is forced to use.
- pdimitar 5y agoThat's true. It's also true you can make almost any desktop environment and theming with it which I dig quite a lot but never have time for. IMO desktop Linux has a future -- and I am saying this as a vocal critic of it. But there are some obstacles that haven't been overcome yet.