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Re:Ubuntu Makes Flutter ‘Default Choice’ for Future Desktop ... by riffraff on Sunday March 07, 2021 @09:26AM (#26376055)
I think what is meant is that while some electron apps are popular in the developer demographic (i.e. VS Code) the average desktop user does not run many of then, and is more likely to use desktop apps written in non-web technologies (VLC, Transmission, Office, and whatever it is people use these days)
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Re:Ubuntu Makes Flutter ‘Default Choice’ for Future Desktop ... by candiddevmike on Sunday March 07, 2021 @09:43AM (#26376180)
As far as I know Discord, Skype, and Slack are all electron based. Office is mostly used online.

Electron is a really easy way to add Linux support to your app.

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Re:Ubuntu Makes Flutter ‘Default Choice’ for Future Desktop ... by Barrin92 on Sunday March 07, 2021 @09:58AM (#26376287)
Slack, Spotify, Signal and Whatsapp desktop, Skype, Discord, MS Teams are all built on web tech. I think even Office 365 nowadays has a lot of the UI stuff written in react native.

A lot of older linux software is non-web based but that's not the average desktop user.

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Re:Ubuntu Makes Flutter ‘Default Choice’ for Future Desktop ... by jjnoakes on Sunday March 07, 2021 @11:11AM (#26376990)
> I think even Office 365 nowadays has a lot of the UI stuff written in react native.

Where can I read about this?

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Re:Ubuntu Makes Flutter ‘Default Choice’ for Future Desktop ... by Barrin92 on Sunday March 07, 2021 @11:24AM (#26377121)
I think I read about this on twitter from one of the webpack devs a few years ago, might have been this chain. (https://twitter.com/TheLarkInn/status/1006746626617008128)

I think for react native in windows apps more generally the github page is a good start

https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows

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