 There seems to be a real renaissance of what I might call GNOME-assed GNOME apps, to riff off of the "Mac-assed Mac apps" refrain. Feels like GTK 4 and the tooling around it appeals to a lot of developers building all sorts of amazing new apps and utilities. With each passing day, I start to wonder if I too would like to write a GNOME app. It's so refreshing to see a "desktop" operating system in the modern era actually care about a cohesive app ecosystem which is welcoming to new entrants. 12 comments
@dave Yeah, I've been really enjoying it on my M1 Mac mini, so much so that I'm giving serious thought to buying a Framework laptop some time this summer.  @jaredwhite I’m plotting my route out of being 100% in the Apple dev eco system. Largely it looks like Kotlin Multiplatform + Compose, I think for me as I want to continue making mobile apps. I can see a world when I do that to cover Android/desktop, with some shared code for iOS. And give Apple’s approach to things, I don’t see this as the anathema I would’ve done a couple of years ago even! @dave I get it! I was absolutely an Apple fanboy for many, many years. But more recently I've grown pretty disillusioned with how the company treats its developer community, and honestly I'm more of an "iPad" fan than a "Mac" fan these days (just love the tablet form-factor)…so sort of makes sense to go hybrid with a Linux machine as the "PC" in the mix. I don't know yet about mobile…I'm no fan of Google either, but maybe there's a world where an "ungoogled" Android variant could appeal to me? @jaredwhite maybe - I’ve had a play with GrapheneOS recently on a test device and I… again, didn’t hate it 😅 For me it looks like building a NAS, and setting up backup for that, and then transferring iCloud Drive, Photos, and even password management to that system. Making sure I’m not starting from scratch on whatever platform I’m using. But yeah; Apple doesn’t respect the developer community, and that’s wearing thin on me 😅  I am running the Framework 13 AMD with Fedora/Gnome and I couldn't be happier, if you feel like you'd enjoy using it. I cannot recommend it enough @jaredwhite It's a good ecosystem and there's a lot of development going into supporting mobile. One toolkit to allow your App to run on the desktop and in your pocket too. @jaredwhite I too have been noticing how many new GNOME apps seem to be appearing and how many devs seem to have fun with the design elements. Also quite some of them seem to work well on mobile devices, which renews my interest in Linux phones.  @jaredwhite i just love the vibe of gnome i regards to consistency in the app ecosystem @twojays @jaredwhite @UniversalBlue @frameworkcomputer I kinda... disagree? Gtk4 is a huge break from Gtk3 and it becomes really obvious when you're using apps built in the different toolkits. I want to like GNOME but there are some rough edges and it feels less polished than KDE (which definitely has rough edges of its own) @dominick @twojays @UniversalBlue @frameworkcomputer Well, I suspect those upgrade gotchas will fade over time. I hadn't used GNOME for a very long time before recently, so I'm coming into this pretty fresh. 🤷🏻♂️ |
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@jaredwhite I hear you on that. I had that vibe running Fedora with Gnome on my M1 MBA. It doesn’t suck, and actually “feels” quite nice