For a simple desktop app, would you choose MAUI or Avalonia?

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    Control library focused on fluent design and bringing more WinUI controls into Avalonia

  • If you want to have the FluentUI theme you can use https://github.com/amwx/FluentAvalonia. I used this for another project and didnt have any issues.

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    Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET Foundation community project.

  • Thanks for sharing the performance comparison. However, note that this is a test of how many times per second something can be rendered, Avalonia says it's "from our new compositional renderer", and the chart explicitly labels it as Avalonia 11, which doesn't yet seem to have been released. https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia

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