I wonder why devs need to work on multiple different environments. I only have (user)experience with KDE and GNOME but what’s the difference between them?
- It’s not the default layout, you could ship another default version
- goals can be to maximize customizability (features) while minimizing ressources. Or the other way round. (Or simplicity)
- is it because devs like different frameworks (qt, gtk)? Or language?
What a shitty answer, all those apps can be installed completely without the desktop environment. It’s just more practical to do it directly with all those packages
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Depends on the App, some KDE apps will make you install KDE as a dependency regardless of everything.