[squiggleblaz]

>It's also a bit of a short sighted, if verging on arrogant viewpoint. I thought the whole ethos of FLOSS (I did check the license which is a 3-clause BSD) was to have choice?

The ethos of FLOSS is to be able to change software and give it to your colleagues and friends. Gnome -- one of the major competitors to Flutter for Linux desktop programs -- is famously an example of a choice-unfriendly floss project.

[teh_klev]

Then pick something else. I binned Gnome after they did all that Apple like dock nonsense and went all Fisher-Price. Today, and for a few years now, I've been running LXDE. I did try KDE for a couple of years (Plasma etc) but we just didn't get on. LXDE does just enough for a quality of life desktop experience.

Also I don't think I even mentioned Gnome. Also isn't Flutter just an app UI toolkit, ala, Electron, Qt etc? Just because there's a Flutter app I want to run doesn't mean I need to change my desktop manager.