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Gnome and plasma merge, and thoughts on the limit of open source (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by WbrJr@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Can we please have an official merge of KDE plasma and gnome?

I just installed fedora with the KDE plasma spin and kind of like it, but kind of don't. I like that it is so much more feature rich, all the little things like easily accessible clipboard history and nice overview of everything. On the other hand I like the feel of gnome, it feels snappier. But plasma seems like a more developed os compared to gnome. But gnome feels more fluid and is just so much more pretty compared to plasma! And it's more intuitive to me (still partial windows user though)

Am I the only one here? It would boost the Linux community so much if more projects would be merged and more people would work on it together. I totally get that not everyone has the same vision and has different ideas and wishes for software, and competition and alternatives are good. But on the other hand more people would work together on one goal :D And I think that a lot about open source projects. Due to the beautiful nature of being open, no one really leads projects or can merge and manage workforce on projects. So it feels to me like there is a certain limit, what open source reached yet and so many things feel a little unpolished because its not their goal to get many people to use it and earn a lot of money?

How do you feel about that?

It escalated a little, I'm sorry but I had those thoughts for a while now and would really appreciate some opinions on it :)

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[–] miracleorange@beehaw.org 8 points 10 months ago

Plasma and GNOME are two completely different projects made by completely different organizations made on completely different technologies with completely different philosophies. That would be like proposing that McDonald's and Wendy's merge.

Yes, open source development isn't necessarily as efficient and doesn't lend itself to as nice of UX/UI/etc, but that's not the point. The point is the freedom. Do I wish, as a GNOME user, that GNOME had certain features that Plasma does? Yeah, but part of the reason I like GNOME is that they're so stringent about what makes it into the DE that it makes for an infinitely more polished experience than Plasma. You can definitely approximate the GNOME workflow on Plasma well enough, and that's the great thing about Plasma: you can do almost anything you want with it.

You're not the first person to propose that open source projects merge, and you certainly won't be the last, but freedom also implies that you work on what you want to, so let people work on what they want to!

BTW, there are certainly more DEs than just GNOME and Plasma. Maybe try Budgie! It's like the default workflow of Plasma mixed with the simplicity of GNOME.