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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-15T12:22:04.000Z",
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  "textContent": "> There's an element of truth, but the world is not as simple as \"corporate bad and fast moving, community good and stable,\" at least not in my book.\n\nThe development money is almost all being poured in by multi-trillion dollar corporations whose customers are data centers and huge corporate server farms. IBM and Google and Facebook and whoever else is paying the salaries for Gnome and systemd and Wayland engineers do not give a single thought to the home desktop user experience, they just want a simple Gnome desktop environment that's easy to roll out across thousands of seats at a time, is rarely used by mostly headless data center installers, and is easy to support. And hardly anyone uses the standard Gnome corporate desktop as a home desktop. Ubuntu heavily modifies it, and supports many alternative desktops. Debian's popcon shows that most of their users don't use the Gnome desktop. Mint and MX, two of the more popular home user distros with installed bases in the millions don't even offer a Gnome version, because none of their users are asking for it. So there's a huge disconnect between what gets corporate development, and what home users ultimately end up using.\n\nI think the gulf between what the trillion dollar corporations want on the desktop and what the home users want is widening. So rather than a convergence on standards, the next decade is likely instead to see un-healable rifts. Following the Qt path may be a good middle ground, as it's always been the primary alternative and is widely supported in every popular distro.\n\n* * *",
  "title": "Other/future projects • Re: GTK2 revival",
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