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No, sorry. You are completely alone! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I thought so. Never seen a Linux desktop app developer yet.
I'll keep searching.
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No. I used to, but since long I'm in search for cross platform and since .NET Core is here I'm using it both on Linux and Windows...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: NET Core is here I'm using it both on Linux and Windows
I was curious about that myself. So do you do backend / services or do you create desktop apps that run on linux too?
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I use .NET Core to back-end (APIs) and put a HTML based app on front of it...
There is no true cross-platform UI today, except HTML in browser...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: There is no true cross-platform UI today, except HTML in browser...
And probably never will be. 
By the time they create it, there will be only one OS -- which will be IoT_OS.
Computers are going away.
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raddevus wrote: Computers are going away.
Hell... I hope not 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: I hope not
Me too. Sometimes it feels like it though.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: There is no true cross-platform UI today, except HTML in browser...
That's a redundant statement. 0 + 0 is still 0.
Next you will be telling us that JavaScript is a programming language.
I need a perfect, to the point answer as I am not aware of this.
Please don't reply explaining what method overloading is
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It is known that any number to the power of zero is equal to 1 (n0 = 1)...
Is is also known that any power of zero is zero too (0n = 0)...
JavaScript is the 00... A number we know all the rules for, but still can not define it...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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raddevus wrote: delve
Ah, groodman!
raddevus wrote: Seems
Oh, know not these!
raddevus wrote: not
Uhnhuh, the burning marl (now with more S, U, and Re chunks); I steer, you steer, we all steer!
raddevus wrote: plan
Ooo, slavery? (thass bad)!
raddevus wrote: got
Well, at least he has a sense of humor!
raddevus wrote: Linux
Nope, slathering Bondo on some rust to which I've taken a wire brush with the hope that I've gotten enough shine on the metal present to impart a kind of morbid resignation on any of it that's hidden but is still picking up that ambience of olden days and at wit's end now should be just about giving up the ghost with a whimper ... today.
modified 6-Aug-17 15:45pm.
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You can do Linux application development just for fun, to fill like a real programmer BTW, try Eclipse instead of CodeBlocks.
The real thing and real business is embedded Linux. This is tough, and you need to make a long way to understand something in this area. Good luck.
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I have done a lot of old style command line / daemon programming (make files and C/C++ compiler) and scripts (bash, perl).
That is what I would call "native Linux development".
I have also created a Qt application (direct video output; no window manager) for the Raspberry Pi using cross compilation (Ubuntu in Windows VM using QtCreator).
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raddevus wrote: Anyone else out there doing native Linux dev?
Not native; using Mono, WinForms and Visual Studio Code[^] for Linux.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Not native; using Mono, WinForms and Visual Studio Code[^] for Linux
Again, interesting, since that is the feel I get, that few devs do native Linux application dev.
It's probably the available tools and of course challenges of UI dev.
I downloaded two main apps on my Ubuntu installation:
Calibre (ebook reader - reads mobi, etc)
FileZilla : ftp transfer app
Both are very well done and have a look and feel similar to their windows counterparts.
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raddevus wrote: Again, interesting, since that is the feel I get, that few devs do native Linux application dev.
Windows Forms because it is recognizable by more users than the Gtk-look, and most devs are more versed in it.
Try building a native installer - if you have the time 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Yes, you are not alone.
However, no GUI developnment, so far.
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CPallini wrote: However, no GUI developnment, so far.
I was just looking at .NET Core and examining how cross-platform works there for creating an app on Linux.
I watched that 3 minute video and that is quite amazing:
Get Started with .NET Core[^]
However, again, this is for console apps. Very difficult to find anybody, anywhere talking about creating a desktop UI app for linux. I suppose most people use Java and Qt or tkinter or something.
Maybe Python and tkinter?
It's interesting that in many ways the desktop is going away and there is so much merge with Linux Windows now and yet the best way to get UI everywhere is still the browser. Yet there are a lot of limitations to what your app can do in the browser.
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No, I don't do desktop apps on Linux, but most often I see other programs using gtk+ or qt for the UI. The languages and approaches used on Linux are quite varied, and the latest app with GUI that I installed was Slic3r (for 3d printing), and it was written mostly in perl (!!!).
Otherwise, I have been exclusively using Linux at home since 2006-2007 timeframe and love it. I still do .net for work, but not willing to put up with the way Microsoft does their updates.
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Scott Serl wrote: been exclusively using Linux at home since 2006-2007 timeframe and love it
I've run various distros of Ubuntu over the years, but yesterday I spent the entire day with it attempting to do dev.
I normally run win10 and I have a MacMini (running latest sierra macOS)
I was absolutely amazed with Ubuntu with how similar it felt to the macOS.
I was also amazed that really everything I need (filezilla, Calibre (ebook reader), dev environment, etc) was available and installation was quite easy and as I said it runs quite well on this old laptop with only 2GB ram. amazing.
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We have two systems to upgrade starting at 11:00 PM tonight.
Most of the people involved in the process are remoting in and the person doing the actual upgrade is sharing their screen.
Not the way I wanted to spend a Saturday night... we hope to be done by 1:00 AM or so.
Why so late? Because one of the systems is collecting solar derived data from California and we have to wait until after sunset on the West coast....
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So you have company then?
Must be nice.
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There is a glut of people on... my role is more support; a co-worker is doing the upgrade. I am providing verbal support as needed.
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Anyone doing color commentary?
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Taking screen shots of each steps for confirmation.
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