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msarnoff ◴[13 Oct 24 23:53 UTC] No.41832790[source]▶
I love Inkscape. I’ve been using it for 20 years. But it boggles my mind how it’s still so horribly laggy on macOS. At least they got rid of the Xquartz dependency though.
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smitelli ◴[17 Oct 24 23:10 UTC] No.41874740[source]▶
They’ve historically been quite open about needing help on the macOS front. For example, https://inkscape.org/news/2021/06/22/seeking-macos-dev-contr...
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Gigachad ◴[18 Oct 24 04:01 UTC] No.41876235[source]▶
I’d imagine there just isn’t a huge group of people who work on foss software, and use Mac.

I’ve noticed that just in general foss apps which work great on Linux, are often broken on macOS.

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1. sgdfhijfgsdfgds ◴[18 Oct 24 09:15 UTC] No.41877637[source]▶
It's not universal but some of this stuff seemingly stems from the framework level -- Gtk and Qt.

For example, QGIS and FreeCAD are very good indeed on the Mac, and the quirky problems FreeCAD has on the Mac are generally Qt problems (font mapping, some window handling stuff, very occasional high-DPI things).

Command-line/server-based FOSS stuff is usually not a great challenge.

I guess this is kind of what one could predict, comparing Linux and the Mac. Though it's also the case that Qt and Gtk get more portability eyeballs on Windows, which again is probably what one could predict.