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QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop
Lets developers run QNX on their own desktop, with a non-commercial license again. Critics find the account and download process cumbersome and distrust the license changes.
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Lets developers run QNX on their own desktop, with a non-commercial license again. Critics find the account and download process cumbersome and distrust the license changes.
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What people warn about
Account and download manager required · 2
You have to create an account, get a license, deploy it and then you get a fucking download manager just for linux and windows
Dec 2025 · commentbundling an entire JRE for the only rightful architecture x86-64 just to download and unzip a few files
Dec 2025 · commentFree license revoked after adoption · 2
They got lots of people using it and porting software to it, and then they revoked that free license.
Dec 2025 · commentthe license was changed overnight leaving a large enthusiast community in the lurch
Dec 2025 · comment
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You have to create an account, get a license, deploy it and then you get a fucking download manager just for linux and windows
Criticizes · Dec 2025 · in “QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop”
bundling an entire JRE for the only rightful architecture x86-64 just to download and unzip a few files
Criticizes · Dec 2025 · in “QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop”
They got lots of people using it and porting software to it, and then they revoked that free license.
Criticizes · Dec 2025 · in “QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop”
the license was changed overnight leaving a large enthusiast community in the lurch
Criticizes · Dec 2025 · in “QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop”
The big news here is that they have a reasonable non-commercial license again.
Mixed · Dec 2025 · in “QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop”
this could be quite useful for poking at the head unit in my car
Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop”
it's great that QNX is supporting modern languages
Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop”
why do they make it so hard to build trust?
Mixed · Dec 2025 · in “QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop”
QNX ran live from just a single 1.44MB
Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop”
No more messy cross-compilation.
Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop”
because of the Eclipse on Windows cross- compiling thing, which they've done when I last looked
Criticizes · Dec 2025 · in “QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop”
And the official support options are Discord and Reddit. Sad.
Criticizes · Dec 2025 · in “QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop”
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