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A number of customers are leaving Windows for Linux ahead of Windows 11. To support them, we had to offer a linux equivalent for a bunch of C# .NET desktop apps.

After evaluating a lot of options, pyQT + nuitka gave a reliable cross-platform result (can target distros based on Debian and Enterprise Linux easily.) And we are still able to target Windows for the customers that remain there.



Avalonia would have been a far, far better option.


We evaluated a ton of options, I'm not sure how Avalonia didn't make the list. Thanks for the tip!


Perhaps wasn't available at the time? It has remained relatively little known to teams that lived comfortably within WPF for years, luckily it's changing. .NET's GUI situation is a mess but Avalonia and Uno make it quite saner.




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