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MAUI is less cross-platform friendly than you might think. I'm using Avalonia right now, which works well.

How so? Buggy features on certain platforms or something else?

It doesn't run on Linux. Not sure how they can call it "cross platform" if it doesn't run on Linux. Maybe across Microsoft's platform.

Across Microsoft's platform? It runs on iOS, macOS and Android.

Linux desktop is a insignificant dwarf compared to the forementioned. It's also super fragmented (what is linux desktop anyways?) and hence a ton of work to have something reliable working there. It's easy to understand why it has not been included as a first-class citizen for MAUI.

dotnet core is also open source and runs perfectly on linux, but again -- desktop no bueno.

It's for front-end development. There are ~0% use cases for a linux UI outside of development tools and maybe database monitoring tools?

There are plenty of people who daily drive linux that would disagree with there being "zero use cases"

If you ever are curious about how product managers make their decisions, it's based on more that 'plenty of people'. If you want to be a good engineer, you should also learn the difference between zero and approximately zero, if you want to quote people.

I daily drive Linux and I kind of agree with you. The amount of people I know that use Linux, use non-dev apps on their laptop/desktop, and aren't developers are zero (excluding myself obviously). The actual percentage of non-dev native gui tool users on Linux is probably within the noise of the measurable data.

How do MAUI windows apps run through Wine? Not exactly cross platform but could be an option.

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