WDYM so I shouldn’t make an anime flavored, Arch based distro named Archuwu?
- UwUntu needs some competition
  
  I can totally picture this. Cutesy sound effects, characters pulling up/down menus, sparkle effects...
  Where can I get it?
- ETA iso, wen?
- Reminds me of this
- Where is it? Give it to me now
- You can make pony flavored Debian based distro named Derpian
- Bruh this is needed
- You should, and you shouldn't let anyone stop you!
Why make new apps, we should be focusing on rewriting everything in Rust /s
- Just please no more electron.
  
  Can”t we just re-write Electron in Rust and then use it for everything else? /s
  
  Are there other leptons I can create apps with?
  
  They will rewrite rust in electron
Make a Linux app, make a Linux distro, who cares...
How about you just let people do what they enjoy doing.
- Make a Linux app, not war.
- Yeah, this is obnoxious.
  It's also truly terrible at being persuasive.
The “Where to start” section should be a “Not You” meme, with Electron in the middle square
- Electron can be done well, like vscode does. In saying that, it almost never seems to happen
  
  I'm curious what witchcraft Microsoft did with VSCode to make it so responsive and performant when no other electron app is.
  
  Didn't they basically take all the slow bits and rewrite them in not electron?
Is this site insane? On Linux I have access to so many more applications than other platforms. Sorry apple, ios apps repeating the same thing infinitely doesn't count.
- You are comparing Apples to oranges. While it may be true that Linux may have more software available, in my experience macOS has a shit ton of productivity software as well, and many times, due to being for-profit, of higher quality. That's exactly why I've been thinking about giving my own try to making a launcher like Raycast for Linux.
  
  I think I live in a foss bubble, haven't paid for software for... Too long 😹. Would you make it foss or paid or something else?
  
  Can completely agree. On Apple systems I can find a ton of productivity and editing software, but no luck doing things like file operations or automating. On Linux I can find absolutely anything related to processing data, customization, science or protocol clients, but no luck finding good note taking tool.
- Yeah I recently went back to Linux as a daily driver and was blown away how easy stuff like flatpaks made it to do everything I need quickly. That wasn’t the case last time I used Linux for something more than a quick and dirty VM host.
Electron? Really? At this point you should pick web app.
- An app is an app, and my computer will take it all the same. ¯(ツ)_/¯
It's fun and games... until you get lots of "...just like X command?" commentaries from randoms. Until you get sick of such and decide to do something non-productive instead. Unless there is money included in the former.
t. Been there, done that.
Its not like there many Windows "Apps" being made. Almost everything these days is web based on the desktop.
- No wonder when installing anything on Windows have so much friction compared to Linux and MacOS. Every program have it's own installer and updater, bundling dependencies with no deduplication making simpliest program heavy. Like, when writing a Python program you are supposed to bundle Python or user would need to install it manually.
  GNOME created awesome app ecosystem recently. I have hundreds of them installed, no slowdowns or problems with space, all updated in single menu with quick search which one I want. Apps on desktops have even more sense than on mobile, as they can benefit from less isolation and more integration with rich filesystem and system functions.
How about instead of making yet another Linux distro, you just make an install script instead? I'm personally more likely to try out an install script over a totally pointless ISO....
I'm sorry but no AUR mention?
Maybe we need a new distro that comes with vscode installed so we don’t have to do it!
I'm interested in new distributions, but it really needs to do something new. Different default packages with a handful of custom things on top of an existing distro just doesn't cut it. Give me a NixOS, Puppy Linux, ReactOS(I know it's not a distro) or something else unique. I'm tired of Debian/Ubuntu based distros, if I wanted Debian or Ubuntu, I would use them.
- Suprise, if going the other way around it also would be broken.
I’d been playing with the idea of building a Linux app. I used Post Haste on Windows to help me organise footage but haven’t found a substitute on Linux yet.

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