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Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments?

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After many explorations, hesitations and tribulations; and after having thought that an Arch derivative with KDE is the way; and after having later considered that more desktop stability would be advisable, and having a fling for Ubuntu MATE 21.04, a quick experiment showed me that Ubuntu MATE canno...

Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments?

This article was written in the sense of bashing gnome but yet some points seem to be valid. It explains the history of gtk 1 to 4 and the influence of gnome in gtk. I'm not saying gnome is bad here, instead I find this an interesting to read and I'm sharing it.

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  • Conclusion was instersting as hell. I thought I would die laughing. Okey I really do not understand why people want to use old shit. Like old Debian, old XFCE, old GTK, old X, old EVERYTHING! And it does not even matter, actually you may and can use anything, stop updating, stop complaining, etc.

    • I guess it's because some people like consistency and not rapid changes. X may be because of NoVideo users.

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