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Desktop GNU/Linux.

Too much of a cost to test for and to set up CIs for the distros I'm targeting. There is little to no paying users there because of the fragmentation. But again, "paid support" will have lots of choices, versions, combinations and edge cases to cover. So I listed it as "unsupported: use at your own risk."

Windows and macOS have a much sainer desktop for GUI apps to test against.



Except I use GNU/Linux precisely because what Windows/macOS offer is neither sane nor productive for me.

I don't know why people insist that billions of people on this planet have to be satisfied with 3 interfaces but it doesn't work that way.


I've been using xfce for years and love it. It has basic but sufficient tiling and it very scriptable. With autorandr and hook across, it recognises different monitor configurations and automatically sets up xfce panels, docks and keyboard layouts (ie: at work or at home, pc105 gb, and when it's just the Mac monitor on it's own, use gb mac layout).


You should give Cinnamon a shot next time you're looking at Linux GUIs.


> lots of choices, versions, combinations and edge cases to cover

I think Snap[0], Flatpak[1], and AppImage[2] tries to solve this problem.

[0] https://snapcraft.io/build

[1] https://flatpak.org/

[2] https://appimage.org/


The irony of course is that you're listing three different systems to solve the same problem :)


Just use Fedora and GNOME. Linux is good but suffers from the Android problem where third parties modify it with their own branding and ruin it.


Are you using GNOME? Lots of problems just go away if you switch to something else.




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