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Are you interested in a (cross platform) desktop app for lemmy? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just managed to get a absolute baseline working app in avaloniaUI using this library that someone cooked up. No idea if the library is actively maintained, but uh, we'll figure that out when we get to it.

Compared to using the site, possible advantages of a desktop are:

Being able to save posts offline
Client side filtering
performance
less data usage
Not having to use your browser

Other things too, I'm sure. Just trying to gauge interest here. Also I barely know avalonia or C# so just don't expect a polished app out by next monday.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

.NET means it'll be a huge pain to get it running on linux, so it's a no from me.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Are you sure? ASP.NET Core or console apps work fine on GNU/Linux, I didn't try GUI tho.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Avalonia works just fine on linux. Also if things work out, it will be AOT compiled. Plus with WSL, linux should be easy to test for me. Mac will be the only problematic one, as I don't have one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The thing is that WSL isn't a good place to test it. I've had major issues with stuff like EDSM (for elite dangerous). It works fine on windows, linux with mono just straight up doesn't work and proton is still a pain because of all the windows dependencies.

There's also a reason why keepassXC exists, a rewrite was probably easier than making the .NET orginal run properly on linux.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Avalonia does support Linux. :)