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Biggest issue with MAUI imo is the lack of a Linux desktop option, wether a wrapper over GTK, QT or whatever. There's been some effort, but MS is pretty much w
by tracker1 3y ago
Biggest issue with MAUI imo is the lack of a Linux desktop option, wether a wrapper over GTK, QT or whatever. There's been some effort, but MS is pretty much willfully ignoring it. Not that Linux desktop is huge, but it's approaching half of where OSX is and given the early adopter focus is for Developer, it's IMO a massive miss.
Cross-platform desktop apps, should at least cover Windows, OSX and Linux (appImage/Flatpak) as a baseline. Avalonia works well enough, but MAUI just muddied the waters. With the massive efforts towards web-ui in general, it's really not surprising that many devs/shops are just shrinkwrapping with Electron. Even if there are far lighter options for embedded browser usage of the system's browser engine. In the end, the state of desktop apps sucks all around.