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karmakaze on Nov 11, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Gnome Receives €1M from German Government

I'm surprised that Germany wouldn't prefer KDE.

PokemonNoGo on Nov 11, 2023 [–]

I'm not sure preference is behind a grant like this I think many other factors come into the decision. But why would they prefer one over the other? Sorry didn't get your comment at all.

karmakaze on Nov 11, 2023 | [–]

KDE was started by someone at a german university and would presumably have sensibilities suiting a german take on UX, whereas Gnome is a very simple mainstream one.

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