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Re:Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments? by konart on Friday April 08, 2022 @04:26AM (#30954641)
>If you don’t want to participate you don’t have to use it

This has nothing to do with OSS though. You can switch from a closed sources solution too.

The problem is you investment and attachment to certain things.

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Re:Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments? by throwmeariver1 on Friday April 08, 2022 @08:04AM (#30955893)
Yeah, the differences is if heh wants to change something for the better he can try.
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Re:Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments? by konart on Friday April 08, 2022 @08:17AM (#30955973)
In case it is something relatively minor - yes. Fork and rock. Though this is a though decision in itself - you will have to continue the support of your changes, merging upstream changes etc. So in many cases this is a mostly fictional option.

In any other case any person will have a long list of better things to do.

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