> I don't yet support Linux because out of thousands of users, only 2 people have emailed about Linux support (probably both from HN!).
I'm a little surprised to read this from an Electron dev. I remember reading old forum posts about how the Spotify port for Linux was arranged by two devs who met after work for a few hours and got it working well enough that Spotify let them release it as an unsupported client. There was one or two issues that had to do with importing local music, but besides that it ran perfectly fine. You're of course welcome to do whatever you want, but if your runtime is essentially a web browser, I doubt there's going to be much trouble getting it to work on Linux. But what do I know, I don't make a living off of printing labels...
> It's a total joy bringing something like this to market for a niche that's otherwise a dumpster fire of old and clunky 1980s-era Windows-only software.
Here's my grumpy old man take: I kinda prefer the clunky Delphi forms of yesteryear. No, they weren't very pretty, but they were stable and performant enough that if you bought a license, you could guarantee that it would run forever. There was a special kind of feeling of ownership with that software, because it really felt like it was tangible and "yours". I don't think any Electron app has ever made me feel that way; at best it's a begrudging relationship with software I need for work, at worst it's one update away from being changed enough that I want the old version back. Again, take this with a grain of salt, I don't know your heuristics here.