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PyGTK and desktop stuff

A few lives ago I started my professional career by trying to sell custom office software. Having opinions about that kind of stuff I've chosen Python and PyGTK and some NoSQL database library and it's been quite a struggle. In this present moment I live as a digital nomad traveling neutral zones around World War Z and I use many different online services in my professional life and all desktop clients for them are super shitty, starting with google-built web browsers. And whenever I consider building a kind of desktop utility those programs are there's a lot of resistance and comparative lack of tools (in comparison with what web backend context provides). And a lot of primary consumers for some of those services (think collaboration services) are educated, experienced, and opinionated folks like myself. Perhaps there's profit in coding desktop linux software again? And combined with my backend proficiency I could be weird full stack dev services developer... I should