A proposal to switch Fedora Workstation's desktop from GNOME to KDE

Re:A proposal to switch Fedora Workstation's desktop from GN... by Rinzler89 on Thursday May 16, 2024 @09:17AM (#40378044)

>And don't forget the old licensing controversies over Qt, which were long settled by then but a lot of people still regarded Qt with suspicion.

I think a lot of users today weren't even born when the QT controversy was happening yet they keep bringing it up like it's an active showstopper. I think this piece of lore keeps getting repeated so often everywhere, that people forget where it came from and assume it must be a current issue if people still keep bringing it up.

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Re:A proposal to switch Fedora Workstation's desktop from GN... by gh02t on Thursday May 16, 2024 @09:53PM (#40385535)

Agreed, it hasn't been a real issue in what, decades? I've been using Linux for a really long time but even for me I think Qt had switched to GPL a couple years before I first used KDE (exact memory fuzzy). But I definitely recall people bringing it up and using it as a reason to avoid KDE even in the KDE4/Gnome 3 early days.

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