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		gojomo on July 10, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mono outpaces Java in Linux desktop development There's not much standalone desktop Java anywhere; it's clunky for that purpose. But the article is claiming some sort of Mono/MonoDevelop ascendancy for Linux desktop apps, and that's not in evidence. For example, I'd estimate the usership of Eclipse and LimeWire on Linux as larger than any two of the Mono apps mentioned in the article or this thread.

kragen on July 10, 2009 [–]

Well, there are a lot of people who use Tomboy and F-Spot. I don't know whether Mono is less clunky than the JVM in practice.

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