![]() Well, it's not exactly unsustainable - the Github CI continues producing those builds without me having to do anything for it (it in fact didn't break even once in the past year, compared to several breakages on the "backwards-compatible" Ubuntu 18.04 deb which happened whenever Github changed something about the package bundle available to that image). I just have no idea how to package the result to make it easy to install.) (Regarding Mac, I unfortunately don't have a Mac and neither does anyone who I know well enough to ask to borrow theirs, though someone did in fact contribute homebrew-based build scripts that supposedly work at some point. If you are using Windows, and don't care for "free (speech and beer)", why would you even want to use anything other than OneNote? I'm somewhat wary of repeating the mistakes of Firefox (and GNOME) of snubbing a likely target demographic to court an unlikely one. ![]() The thing is, at least in my eyes, Gtk generally feels terrible on platforms where it is not native (I would in fact even avoid using it in a Qt-based Linux desktop setup, just as I avoid Qt-based applications as far as possible in my Gtk-based one), and at any rate the ports are often lacking even in features (for instance, last I checked, Windows Gtk would not allow me to read tablet pressure information). Thanks for the feedback! I can certainly try to improve the structure of the README, though I'm not sure if I agree with some of your points about giving more priority to non-Linux users. That’s true, and it’s a great USP for those that require it, but personally I would avoid assuming that it’s the USP that convinces the masses. You mentioned in this thread that some people don’t want Electron. You could still keep this technical (and potentially alienating) language in your documentation, but simplifying the README to make it easier for the 90% of your potential audience could make it more popular. You could replace it with a Windows or Mac screenshot, to get people to understand it works on their platform. The Ubuntu screenshots make it look like “Linux only”. Windows binaries mention “圆4”, which is very technical and might scare users away. There are no Mac binaries, but Macs are wide-spread among developers. Your installation instructions make it hard for users to pick which one they should choose. You use Linux-lingo, like “free (speech and beer)” which many users are unfamiliar with and don’t know why they should care. You mention why you created it, not what it enables the user to do. What I immediately noticed looking at the README, is that the communication is centered around you and your values, rather than on the end-user: I mean the following as feedback to help you find more users, not as critique I understand where you’re coming from and this is just how I would personally approach it:
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