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Make a Linux app. Stop making distributions.
- ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻ ( @unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ) English57•10 months ago
Why make new apps, we should be focusing on rewriting everything in Rust /s
- beeng ( @beeng@discuss.tchncs.de ) 33•10 months ago
Just please no more electron.
- LeFantome ( @LeFantome@programming.dev ) 12•10 months ago
Can”t we just re-write Electron in Rust and then use it for everything else? /s
- beeng ( @beeng@discuss.tchncs.de ) 10•10 months ago
You’re only half sarcastic, I can tell!
And they did apparently. It’s called Tauri
- Declamatie ( @Declamatie@mander.xyz ) 8•10 months ago
Are there other leptons I can create apps with?
- LeFantome ( @LeFantome@programming.dev ) 2•10 months ago
Obviously the version of Electron re-written in Rust would be Muon.
- AllNewTypeFace ( @AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ) 27•10 months ago
The “Where to start” section should be a “Not You” meme, with Electron in the middle square
- ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻ ( @unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ) English17•10 months ago
Electron can be done well, like vscode does. In saying that, it almost never seems to happen
- syd ( @syd@lemy.lol ) 17•10 months ago
WDYM so I shouldn’t make an anime flavored, Arch based distro named Archuwu?
- cerement ( @cerement@slrpnk.net ) 8•10 months ago
UwUntu needs some competition
- Raccoonn ( @furycd001@lemmy.ml ) 4•10 months ago
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…
- noisypine ( @noisypine@infosec.pub ) English2•10 months ago
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.
- governorkeagan ( @governorkeagan@lemdro.id ) English1•10 months ago
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.