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Kori Meets Godzilla
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I actually thought about this a bit recently, and I get why most of these fags don't just fork even though making your version is piss easy nowadays. It's GitHub. It's the social media cancer - it's not about the software, it's about their precious "community"

GitHub makes it so that it's no longer about useful software, it's about social clout and gay stars. When you fork, it's an instant Twitter ratio which hurts their self worth.

This wasn't a thing when all you'd get was a tarball. God it's so fucking gay
 
Who cares about KDE and its goofy mascots? Just use FVWM like a normal person.
I use my own window manager (no, it's not open source, I'm not a commie, and it is pretty shit, but it works like I want it to).
But KDE has had some genuinely great artists and designers contributing through the years, from the KDE 1 icon theme to Konqi and Katie.
 
On the subject of KDE and other DEs, I came across Trinity DE the other day. It's actually a fork/continuation of KDE 3, so it skips all the Plasma flash that came along with KDE 4, and it's also not going to abandon X in the foreseeable future. You might find it to be a good alternative to other "lower-end" DEs since it still has the (relatively) well-integrated KDE application suite available. The last major release was in April so it's still in active development. Unfortunately from what I can tell it's not available in the standard package manager library in many OSes. I'd love to give it a try some time though.
 
On the subject of KDE and other DEs, I came across Trinity DE the other day. It's actually a fork/continuation of KDE 3, so it skips all the Plasma flash that came along with KDE 4, and it's also not going to abandon X in the foreseeable future. You might find it to be a good alternative to other "lower-end" DEs since it still has the (relatively) well-integrated KDE application suite available. The last major release was in April so it's still in active development. Unfortunately from what I can tell it's not available in the standard package manager library in many OSes. I'd love to give it a try some time though.
The problem (last I looked) with Trinity was that it was mostly (very) inexperienced developers trying to maintain a ton of libraries + applications, leading to some weird commits and regressions (and tons of unfixed bugs).
Even the KDE 1 revival project seemed more solid from a technical perspective (very experienced developer(s?) doing the bare minimum changes to get it to build and run).
 
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