• trompete [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          5 days ago

          Overengineered by Germans germany-cool, over-complex UI and unstable (I blame the C++). Little vision except “similar to Windows but with more options”.

          Originally, Qt (the GUI library KDE uses) was proprietary and it still (I think) is corporate and not community-run, though it is now free software and has been for a long while. The people who started the project apparently didn’t care much about that, though I guess some people put in significant effort later to convince whatever corporate entity was in charge of Qt at the time (I think Trolltech) to release under dual LGPL/proprietary license. Gnome was basically started as a fully free software alternative to KDE.

          Otherwise it’s fine, definitely has a target audience who love that shit, and it also doesn’t deserve being called KKKDE.