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miladyincontrol • yesterday at 8:35 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

I dont mean to be too pedantic but open source for a linux desktop environment kinda should go without saying?

Rather, I couldn't imagine using a closed source one.


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darkwi11ow • yesterday at 8:36 PM

They exist, for example SteamOS has closed source desktop shell based on Steam client

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Gualdrapo • yesterday at 9:20 PM

fwiw I can remember all the turmoil when Qt had no free tier and KDE was work of the devil

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