I've seen a lot of interesting discussion regarding Mint's choice to downgrade some apps to the GTK3 version, later fork them. Whilst a lot of people have been critical let me provide another perspective
Projects like Mint do not like the state of GNOME/where it is going, instead of just sitting around whining about how much they don't like it they've taken it upon themselves to fork tools and maintain them for their own project. You may disagree with that choice but this is the spirit of FOSS
The same can be said about COSMIC from System76, they have had serious disagreements with the direction of the project so that said fuck it, we're just going to build our own desktop and run it the way that we want to run it.
Could problems just be resolved upstream, maybe. But they have decided that this time has passed, any attempts made didn't go the way they wanted so they've decided to go off and do their own thing.
Maybe in the long run all of this is a giant waste of time, GTK3 can no longer be saved, building a desktop on an immature toolkit like Iced just won't work. This is completely possible but I have nothing but respect for developers who actually take it upon themselves to try and resolve what they see as a problem by sitting down and just writing some code.
@BrodieOnLinux are we really at the point in #freeSoftware when people will whine about those who only complain and do nothing, and they equally whine about those who actually work on the thing?
Is a #Linux user only satisfied when all the developers are working exactly on the things that specific user needs?
It has the same energy as the "why isn't X distribution cater to everyone instead of their specific target user?" comments.
@nicemicro @BrodieOnLinux
But thats exactly what it happening on Fedi: "How dare these devs work on things that I don't use for my own very special obscure reasons" 🫠
