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    Which DE/WM do you prefer? (lemmy.world)
    submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 66 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Is gnome claiming to be older than kde? 'cause it isn't. Gnome was started because decades ago, the license for the qt library used by kde wasn't quite open enough.

    [–] [email protected] 64 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    i interpreted it as the user's first DE was gnome :)

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

    Yeah, that would work.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    CDE (common desktop environment) was proprietary afaik. Crazy times

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    It was. I think I used CDE very briefly on some Sun workstations back around the kde 1.x times. But lowly undergrads mostly got ttys and not X terminals.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    I remember this and hate that I do.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

    It's been made by someone born after both Kde and Gnome is my take.