I am starting a new project, which requires to be GUI primarily for macOS, but also Windows.
Swift is a lovely language, but had to go with C#+Avalonia, which can give me truly multi-platform app. If only SwiftUI was properly supported on Windows, that would be great.
For now, .NET/C# + Avalonia seems the most convenient way to write Desktop apps, well, if you don't want to pay for Delphi ;)
I have Lenovo W530 from around 2012 or so. It has Nvidia K1000M card, full of RAM, i7. I kept upgrading it over the years and used Windows.
I have decided to get back to FreeBSD, I used it as desktop 2002-2009 or so.
Downloaded 15.0, start install, wifi driver works perfectly, out of the box. Promising start, never seen before with FreeBSD.
Installed. Next, lets go to setup, graphics and Wayland. And here we started again, same story, hundred magic params to add, nvidia drivers doesn't work properly, install older version, is incompatible with Wayland etc. Need to go back to Xorg, another set of problems.
Ok, if I spent another 8 hours and asked for help in forums as it was 20+ years ago, I could have probably made it work. Until the next issue showed up.
So I decide to drop it, download CachyOS. Start installer. It detects K1000M, installs old version of Nvidia drivers, KDE, sorts out all compatibility issues, everything just flies, flawlessly. As never before, not even Ubuntu or Fedora.
CachyOS guys, thank you, you made an incredible work on getting it all to this state. Absolutely great.
Now don't get me wrong, I love FreeBSD, used it as my main driver for years in early 2000s, started my career with it and it has sweet spot in my heart, forever. It's just that laptop support is not there, still terrible, as it was 20 years ago. PS last laptop I used it successfully on, was Sony Vaio VGN-FS550 from 2005!