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Hey all, I'm Dylan Field — author of the linked post / co-founder of Figma. If you have any questions, let me know!

Does "cross-platform" include Linux? I'd like to give this a try, but I'd rather not boot back to Windows unless I have to.

In theory, yes. In practice, we haven't invested in testing Linux because designers prefer other platforms.

I thought developers were supposed to use the tool, too :)

how would you compre yourself against Avocode (which incidentally is available on Linux).

As far the designers-prefer-Mac aspect is concerned, this part is not true in countries like India.

For the record, I'm a designer. But I also know I'm a slightly unusual one.

Dylan, perhaps in the demo video they should be designing something other than a Weather app? As it's basically a poster child for the "bells & whistles over substance" trend in the UI design.

Yep — in the video, our primary goal for the UI was visual: we wanted something that was visually very different from Figma so it would stand out against the Figma interface. Makes sense the lack of substance shows through ;)

While we don't plan to change the video, I think your point absolutely has merit.

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