• FaeDrifter
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    1 year ago

    Old history - Qt had licensing concerns, gtk+ was guaranteed FOSS, so major distros shipped Gnome2 by default, and it stuck.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah I know, i was there (and I always preferred KDE… migrated to it from Windowmaker of all things, I never could get the hang of Enlightenment, pretty though it was). But that was sorted literally decades ago!

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        1 year ago

        Yeah it was sorted out really long ago. But also it’s not like all these brand new from scratch Linux distros are choosing vanilla gnome. It’s the same big players as decades ago, and their derivatives.