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> This is not really accurate. Qt relies on a lower level windowing system (X Window, Wayland, Cocoa, win32 etc. etc.).

Qt also supports rendering directly on the GPU (or with software rendering on the framebuffer) without any windowing system such as X11 or Wayland - that's likely how it is most commonly used in the wild, as that's one of the main way to use it on embedded devices.




I'd like to see it do that on macOS ...

You're seriously suggesting that the common use of Qt on Linux systems is direct rendering without the windowing system?


Not parent, but yes, sort of.

Arguably it's use in embedded contexts is much larger than desktop. It's quite popular for in-car computers, defense systems, etc.

For desktop linux, yes, it uses the windowing system.


Well, yes. I can't tell too much because of NDAs but if you go buy a recent car there is a good chance that all the screens are rendered with Qt on Linux or a RTOS - there is likely more of those than desktop linux users as much as this saddens me




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