On 16/06/19, Gary Dale (g...@extremeground.com) wrote: > On 2019-06-15 12:43 p.m., Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > We agree it is uncommon to use both (you go further and claim it is even > > common to use neither), and we agree it is common to use either one or > > the other (you go further and claim it is extremely common). :-) > > There is a difference between "a lot of people" and common. Gnome and > KDE/Plasma 5 are common, Cinnamon is widely used. A lot of people use XFCE > or LXDE. > > Gnome and Plasma are common because they run just fine on 90% of the > hardware out there. Cinnamon doesn't use either but is still based on GTK, > as is Mate. There are a lot of desktops but most of them are built on either > Qt or GTK. I think Jonas may have been enjoying some "logical and/or" humour. Everyone in our office uses i3. I thought that choice was very common these days. Certainly the Qt/GTK subsystems still have to be around for app support. Rory
