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I really wish for better Desktop App support. Many of the Windows applications I miss on Linux are written in .NET and running them with Mono looks terrible and

by emsy 12y ago

I really wish for better Desktop App support. Many of the Windows applications I miss on Linux are written in .NET and running them with Mono looks terrible and often has a few problems. Or maybe I'm just silently hoping that 2015 is the year of the Linux desktop and it's sponsored by Microsoft.

Maarten88 12y ago
A port of Xamarin Forms to Linux would make this possible. I hope someone would pick this up. Over time this could enable a single UI technology to target native UI's of all major desktop and mobile platforms.
- sandyarmstrong 12y ago
  Xamarin Forms isn't supported on any desktop platform. Xwt (https://github.com/mono/xwt https://github.com/mono/xwt) is probably a more appropriate choice.
jbigelow76 12y ago
With all this open sourcing and moves to address other platforms I've wondered if MS will soon roll out some kind of harness or wrapper app that can be used to host WPF built desktop apps on Linux and Mac.
- tonyedgecombe 12y ago
  If they ever decide they need Visual Studio to run on the Mac then I'm sure WPF would come to the Mac. Other than that I think they have given up on it.