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Really wish this was cross platform. Would love to use this in Linux.

I appreciate the effort that it takes to deliver a polished application. I just wish more tooling did better to target Linux, Windows and Mac for desktop apps. Probably a larger driver behind web based apps.



I'm kind of surprised that for desktop applications more people don't use Qt. It's so good for these kinds of applications!


What DO people use for (cross-platform) desktop applications these days? Find it hard to believe Electron is the only one.


I don't know if cross-platform applications are very popular anymore. Most of the good software I use is either single platform using native code, or it's Qt or it's electron. Only rare cases use something else.

Sublime has their own cross-platform native widget system

Jetbrains/minecraft use Java

Spotify is chromium, discord is chromium, thunderbird is firefoxium, Obsidian is chromium, steam is (probably?) chromium.

Most software that I know is cross-platform uses Qt otherwise; qbittorrent (duh), Transmission, KeepassXC, VLC (mostly, but also uses other GUI frameworks sometimes), Calibre, Krita, OBS


Qt is a popular choice. And as a user, apps made with Qt are pleasant to use.


Tauri, Qt.

But I'd think Electron has more than 80% of the market.




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