This stuff is the double edged sword behind why the year of the Linux desktop will either never arrive, or be WSL, depending on your definition.
For all the commendable work in the kernel on not breaking user space, Linux does not have a viable unified stable userland api like win32 or cocoa.
I say the above thinking my statement is rather blunt, but not too controversial, and hoping someone will refute it effectively with some desktop app sdk that will work on 90% of the distributions.
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This stuff is the double edged sword behind why the year of the Linux desktop will either never arrive, or be WSL, depending on your definition.
For all the commendable work in the kernel on not breaking user space, Linux does not have a viable unified stable userland api like win32 or cocoa.
I say the above thinking my statement is rather blunt, but not too controversial, and hoping someone will refute it effectively with some desktop app sdk that will work on 90% of the distributions.
I hope so as well, but in my linked article I bring up a some task examples which I believe would all fall into areas said SDK wouldn't accommodate.