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  • mmmm@sopuli.xyztolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldBlame qt
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    1 month ago

    A few days ago I saw a post on c/opensource@lemmy.ml about “an alternarive to KDE Connect”, and the rationale to wanting “an alternative to KDE Connect” was that it “makes you download a lot of other software that you don’t really need”. Which it’s just the required Qt stuff. imho that’s plain ridiculous.

    Given the high upvote count you can guess people just think about GTK as the default and every other toolkit as “software you don’t really need”.

















  • mmmm@sopuli.xyztoCalvin and Hobbes@lemmy.world23 August 1988
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    4 months ago

    I can remember feeling like that when my parents were teaching me how to ride a bicycle, but it was only somewhat recently when I heard somewhere it’s better, easier, safer and faster to teach them kids how to ride a bicycle without pedals, so they can coast with their feet and gain that sense of balance