[Question] Official stance on community contributions about Linux-support

[Lemon73-Computing]

Seeing that most Linux support–related issues have been closed, I assume that the MAUI team does not plan to officially support Linux.
So I have one question:

If the community were to develop Linux support for MAUI, would there be a possibility for it to be merged into the main repository?

In addition, there is a discussion that has received over 500 upvotes and more than 700 👍 reactions, which suggests that there is strong support from the community. Are you willing to accept contributions from the community in this area?

See also: https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues?q=label%3Aplatform%2Flinux

[davidortinau]

Developing a Linux backend of layout and controls for .NET MAUI is not on our roadmap. We recognize the interest and value of this to the product and developer experience, and welcome contributions that would enable this experience.

In considering future backends, @PureWeen prototyped developing backends in their own repository. This is the pattern we'd like to follow and evolve. https://github.com/PureWeen/maui.wpf

[jfversluis]

In continuation of what David says above, there is already a somewhat progressed version, active, for Linux by one of our team members @jsuarezruiz right here: https://github.com/jsuarezruiz/maui-linux

[Lemon73-Computing]

Developing a Linux backend of layout and controls for .NET MAUI is not on our roadmap. We recognize the interest and value of this to the product and developer experience, and welcome contributions that would enable this experience.

In considering future backends, @PureWeen prototyped developing backends in their own repository. This is the pattern we'd like to follow and evolve. https://github.com/PureWeen/maui.wpf

This is my first time hearing about maui.wpf, thank you for pointing it out.

In continuation of what David says above, there is already a somewhat progressed version, active, for Linux by one of our team members @jsuarezruiz right here: https://github.com/jsuarezruiz/maui-linux

I am familiar with maui-linux (as I am one of its contributors), and I was wondering: once it reaches a production-ready stage, is there any chance it could be merged into the main project (here)?

[giuseppenovielli]

Hi everyone,
If I may suggest, it might be more useful to add web support using Blazor web assembly.
If a .NET MAUI XAML app runs in the browser, it can be used on any device, even covering operating systems and devices that are currently unsupported, such as Linux, WPF, HarmonyOS, etc.

Running .NET MAUI apps in the browser guarantees execution on any device, without providing official support. All that's needed is for the OS to be able to run a browser, and you're done.