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GNOME Recognized as Public Interest Infrastructure
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this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2023
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This does not happen because Gnome is the most supported desktop environment out there, they have Red Hat, Google, Canonical, OpenSuse even Microsoft donated to Gnome. Don't get me wrong some of this company do support kde too, but Gnome get treated in a different way because it's the default de for most of the distros out there.
Like you said, these companies help KDE too. KDE also has more hardware partners, and more contributors.
Even ignoring all that though, it still doesn't answer the question: why cry over Gnome getting money to aid in accessibility improvements?
I have never once heard anybody cry about the companies that support KDE, yet some people here go on like Gnome fucked their girlfriend. It's pathetic.
Nobody's forcing anybody to use Gnome or any any other DE. Just be happy when nice things happen in the FOSS word.
But I'm using xfce here... :') and It doesn't even get some funds :'(
Wayland on XFCE is still farr farrrrrr :')