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It's such an underrated advantage of open source operating systems that if you like some bit of software, you'll likely be able to use it for decades to come. E
by exitb 6mo ago
It's such an underrated advantage of open source operating systems that if you like some bit of software, you'll likely be able to use it for decades to come. Even a core bit of software like a window manager. I grew to hate how you need to conform to someone's whim at Apple or Microsoft, or else you get locked out of new features.
- PunchyHamster 6mo agoWell, unless you decided to use GNOME, then you get rugpulled by a bunch of people that think they know better than user what user wants and actively ignore any feedback
- cdmckay 6mo agoYou can always fork it if you don’t like the choices they make That’s the point the OP is trying to make about the advantage of open source
- ldng 6mo agoAnd people did but it is hard against Redhat that has actively made harder and harder to use Gtk+ outside GNOME.
- jdiff 6mo agoWhat changes have been implemented in GTK that make it harder to use outside of a GNOME environment?
- mghackerlady 6mo agopractically everything in GTK 4. It removed menu bars ffs
- jasomill 6mo agoAs far as I can tell, every major version of GTK should be thought of as an entirely separate project, and nothing in GTK 4 made GTK 3 or GTK 2 harder to use.
- antisol 6mo agoPlease link me to the python3 gtk2 library so that I can migrate all my python2 gtk2 software to python3 without rewriting the entire UI. Thanks in advance!
- em-bee 6mo agowhat does make GTK2 harder to use is that it is not supported anymore. you can't build or run GKT2 based apps on new systems without building the GTK2 libraries yourself.
- Lammy 6mo agohttps://adrienplazas.com/blog/2021/03/31/introducing-libadwaita.html https://adrienplazas.com/blog/2021/03/31/introducing-libadwa...
- bandrami 6mo agoThat's happened like three times to the extent that the forks are more widely installed than the original
- antisol 6mo agoHey! Someone sneaked into my brain and wrote down my exact comment!
- gtk40 6mo agoBut you can also use MATE still to this day, or even Cinnamon.
- badsectoracula 6mo agoThere are forks though. The only version i don't think that has a fork is GNOME 1 but... the code is out there (and there is an actively maintained GTK1-based toolkit that was posted here not too long ago, though you may need to make some modifications to the GNOME 1 code to work with it as IIRC it isn't backwards compatible). People made CDE to work on modern systems and IIRC CDE wasn't even compatible with Linux when the code was first released.