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> Even though the Linux ecosystem does not need another desktop environment, creating a new desktop environment is very much in the spirit of how the Linux worl
by miohtama 5y ago
> Even though the Linux ecosystem does not need another desktop environment, creating a new desktop environment is very much in the spirit of how the Linux world does things
Playing devil’s advocate herem by this logic we should also splinter the kernel development for multiple, competing, projects.
- II2II 5y agoThe open source world has the BSD kernels in addition to the Linux kernel. There are also other open source operating systems based upon their own kernel, like Haiku. Each kernel is backed by developers who have their own particular vision, just as each desktop environment is backed by developers with their own particular vision. I think this is a better comparison since only a few desktop environments are forks of other desktop environments, and most of the viable ones are forks of Gnome (much as most of the viable forks of kernels are forks of BSD).