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Discussion on: What's the most wasteful software?

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RoestVrijStaal • Edited

GNOME3 with GTK3 definitely.

It caused so much unrest in the FOSS desktop computing world that spawned at least 5 new desktop environments (MATE, Cinnamon, Unity, Budgie, Elementary, Deepin...) and caused a rewrite of LXDE to LXQt. And I'm not even mentioning the amount of crossplatform applications which moved from GTK to Qt (like WireShark).

Even years later, GNOME3 is still requires dozens of third party extensions to be functional and customizable. And it's still not that fast as GNOME2 or XFCE.

Imaging the amounts of FTE put into all this makes me shiver.