Microsoft’s definition of “cross-platform” generally means “Windows and mobile devices, maybe Macs”; MAUI supports Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and Tizen, but not desktop Linux.

Generally speaking, if you want a .Net UI that works on all desktop operating systems you’ll want a third-party framework like Avalonia or Uno. Yes, that’s extremely annoying but .Net is generally well-designed otherwise and they have to put that signature Microsoft touch somehwere.

One nitpick: MAUI isn’t cross-platform in the sense that it runs on Linux. Okay, it does on Android, but not desktop Linux.

They’d have to go with something third-party like Avalonia.

So it works but they don’t have a process in place to ensure it works. That doesn’t meet their standard for official support and so they retracted their claim that they support Linux via Proton. But they also made clear that they plan on getting that process in place.

That’s honestly the best possible position.

If you want a bunch of stuff that’s not in core or extra and you don’t want to intensely babysit the AUR, you could try Chaotic-AUR. It hosts prebuilt packages for a bunch of AUR packages which are actively maintained by the Chaotic team.

I consider it to be more secure than the AUR proper since they actually care for their packages and review nontrivial changes. For instance, the recent takeover attacks didn’t hit Chaotic-AUR builds since the changed packages didn’t make it past the review.

It’s still an unofficial third-party repository and closer to the AUR than to extra but I consider it a major step up.

Yeah, the novelty is basically that it’s Pokemon with the rose-tinted glasses off. But I’d argue that’s not really what carries it and neither is gameplay that works surprisingly well for something they glued together from Pokemon, Breath of the Wild, and any survival action game.

What carries it is that Pocketpair have kept improving the game despite legal interference and without succumbing to the temptation of charging more money.

There’s no pre-launch DLC. There’s no out-of-early-access price hike. The 1.0 release had so much new stuff in it that it could’ve been sold as an expansion pack in the pre-DLC days and they just pushed it as a free update because they felt the game wasn’t done yet. Even the crossover content is free.

This is a game where the developer actually seems to care about delivering a good product. And I think you can feel it in the quality of the game.