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I notice how several of my coworkers whenever they handle a command line tool fall back to that soft pleasurable slumber from the 1970s when there was no need to relate to complex concepts such as menu selections and check boxes.
And then, sometimes I worry that maybe I behave the same way: A few years ago, we were all testing and evaluating a large selection of virus/malware checkers. Then MS introduced theirs, and our worries went away: Maybe in wasn't perfect, but it was cosy and safe and certainly good enough.
Ten years ago, there were a large selection of IDEs, with fights among adherents to one or the other. Today, there is no need to fight: Visual Studio is universally accepted as The Best for Windows development. It is safe and cosy.
Ten to fifteen years ago, there were quite a number of open source hosts. Most of them dwindled away; today you don't have to think: GitHub is The Place for both re-invented wheels and everything else. Nice and cosy.
This cosy-ness is all over. It isn't all associated with MS - e.g. Python developers have built their own little cave where they don't have to relate to a complex world but can cram around their campfire with nice friends.
OK, several MS initiatives have failed. Yet, two things wouldn't surprise me. First, if MS have seriously assessed the existing package managers with the intention to make something that is significantly better than the average (as they did with malware protection). Second, that the market will react by falling into that soft, cosy mood of "now we have something we can trust".
In a research environment, changing tools every half year is required to stay at top, at the bleeding edge. In industrial production environment, not so much. So the cosy stability of a vendor that provides the same service year after year may be more attractive. Now that the Windows packet manager is all new we do not know how stable it will be. My guess is that quite a few industrial customers will have more confidence in its stability and long time support than in competing alternatives.
Stability beats innovation. And when you look at e.g. the MS malware protection and the IDE, it shows that stability over time lays the groundwork for gradual improvements that, with time, leads up to good tools.
Of course I can't be sure that this will happen with the packet manager, just saying that it migh go in the same direction as IDEs and malware protection.
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As we consider what building device applications will look like in a unified .NET, we see many devices across multiple platforms used, from Android and iOS to Windows and macOS. To address this need we are excited to announce a new first-class UI framework for doing just that: .NET Multi-platform App UI, affectionately call MAUI. Because their UI story was getting a little too understandable
But this way, you can go to MAUI, even while physical distancing!
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Not going 1m5 near that.
Burn it. Burn it with fire 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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 It's the only way to be sure 
TTFN - Kent
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Only way to be sure[^]
You're right
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: .NET Multi-platform App UI, affectionately call MAUI
There's no way that name is going to last. They're going to find a cute, new name for it (Silverlight is spare at the moment, isn't it?).
The cute new name will mean it is clear what is being deprecated in due course...
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Linux on Windows 10 gets a big boost and GPU acceleration I can finally have XEyes on my Windows desktop!
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My question is, WHY haven't they done any work getting WPF apps to be able to run in Linux?
I already kinda know the answer to that question (various compositors and blah blah blah), but that doesn't mean they can't pick the two most popular ones and initially just support those two.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Even if they just targeted Gnome, wouldn't that give them a big chunk o' distros?
(also, see the MAUI bit I just posted, although it seems Linux is missing from the target list)
TTFN - Kent
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Who are the typical users of WPF applications?
Who are the typical Linux affectionados?
How big is the overlapt?
How much does it cost to port WPF apps to Linux?
What is the cost per user?
... Unhandled Divide by zero exception
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Member 7989122 wrote: How much does it cost to port WPF apps to Linux?
It shouldn't cost *anything* (if it's done right). Simply recompile for the desired environment, and you're off and running.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Why not use Avalonia if you want WPF API on Linux!?
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Seems like it ain't ready for prime time. I wasn't aware that WPF had been open-sourced, but the whole goal here is to write the code once, and recompile for the desired environment (namely, Linux with OpenGL).
With .Net Core, making WPF truly "multi-platform" should be easier, and invisible to the developer.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I never used it, so I cant say..
But it seems totally ready for prime time, as far as I can see...
What make you think the opposite?
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Because apps that look and feel like sh*t are needed!
(BTW, Qt has been doing this for a while.)
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You mean, have a look and feel like sh*t ?
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How many things are going to get broken due to this?
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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We have to wait for the next Windows update to see.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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So it's going to be the year of Linux on the desktop afterall... via Windows.
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We are incredibly proud to announce the release of Windows Terminal 1.0! If it's terminal, I guess there's no use treating it?
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Microsoft is continuing its quest to try to get Win32 developers to adopt more 'modern' Windows 10 platform elements. That effort now has a name, Project Reunion, and its first two official libraries. So put on your name tag and mingle by the punch bowl
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Microsoft Q&A, the place to get answers to all your technical questions on Microsoft products and services, was launched on October 30, 2019 as a Preview with support for 11 services. Since then, we have onboarded more services and released key features so you can get your technical answers faster. Time will tell if it's a Major Disaster
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Probably already answered on SO +and marked as a duplicate.+ 
Or:
Oh yay! Another MS site where we can get a canned, "You have said you are having problems with X. ... ... ... (a lot of verbiage). Please give us more information... Hopefully this helps you!" Over the course of five paragraphs.
(and then locking the thread.)
modified 19-May-20 14:25pm.
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David O'Neil wrote: Another MS site where we can get a canned,etc.
Ugh, right. I had blocked their previous “support” site from my brain (and blocked it from search), and forgot how frequently useless it was. Outsourcing responses to first-tier folk rarely help. 
And gamifying it so the MVPs stay on it doesn’t help much either.
TTFN - Kent
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It's not even verbiage, but often outright buttlicking, culminating with absolutely no useful information whatsoever.
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