Gtk 4.0 sucks

…and that’s OK.

Meanwhile, Gtk 4.0 will not be the final stable API of what we would call “Gtk 4”. Each 6 months, the new release (Gtk 4.2, Gtk 4.4, Gtk 4.6) will break API and ABI vs. the release that came before it. These incompatible minor versions will not be fully parallel installable; they will use the same pkg-config name and the same header file directory.

https://blogs.gnome.org/desrt/2016/06/13/gtk-4-0-is-not-gtk-4/

the future of the Linux desktop will depend on porting the Android runtime to the desktop so that Android apps can run on the desktop.

honestly I'm just about done with Linux on the desktop. at this point there's no benefit to using it over MacOS, since the usable distros these days are just as much corporate-sponsored walled garden spyware. all the enthusiasts who used to make desktop Linux interesting have long since moved to MacOS.