MAUI Is Coming to Linux

(avaloniaui.net)

23 points | by DeathArrow 2 hours ago

3 comments

  • Ciantic 20 minutes ago
    I wish they support Linux wholeheartedly, a lot of toolkits and GUI frameworks do it by half-assing things, mostly because Wayland is difficult to understand.

    In Wayland you have multiple ways to render windows, not just the XDG top level window. It works via surfaces, and here is a list I've discovered so far:

      - XDG Top Level Window
      - Child Window
      - Popup Surface
      - Layer surface (like task-bars, shell overlays)
      - Subsurface (region in another surface)
      - IME Panel Surface (surface that follows text cursor)
    
    There probably is others too.

    It is diffifcult to find high-level toolkits that support all of the above.

  • tonyedwardspz 9 minutes ago
    Excited for this. I do wonder how much effort it will be to get an existing app working with this.
  • soumyaskartha 15 minutes ago
    Microsoft adding Linux support for yet another framework nobody asked for while WinForms still exists in 2026 is very on brand.
    • louhike 10 minutes ago
      Avalonia is not made by Microsoft and is often considered as one of the best way to make desktop app with .NET.