Make a Linux app. Stop making distributions.
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?Thanks
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
You should, and you shouldn’t let anyone stop you!
Bruh this is needed
The “Where to start” section should be a “Not You” meme, with Electron in the middle square
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?
If I were to end up doing it (too many things I would like to do, too little time), I’d do it foss. At most I’d paywall features that have an ongoing cost (like hosting or server costs), though I am a bigger fan of keeping things local. That way its simpler and also easier to trust.
Personally, I think that paying for software isn’t a bad thing as long as the price is right and the licensing reasonable (I really hate unnecessary subscriptions). Devs (specially if working on complex stuff) got to eat too, and sometimes donations aren’t enough.
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.
dont listen to the noise, make a distro
they have a fairly prolific blog, pretty cool
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.
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.
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.
Why bother making Linux apps if people think that LibreOffice is a 1:1 replacement for MS Office and everything is perfect already?
Certainly perfect.
