[DesiLurker]

That is besides the point parent poster is making though. are they also making it so that you cannot use the GPL software w/o the IDE? if so that would be a violation of GPL.

[LtWorf]

He's just complaining about the installer of the pre built binaries that asks for an account.

You can download sources and build them yourself. Which is what linux distributions do.

[DannyBee]

I'm complaining that they make it hard for people to want to try it by making it huge and unwieldy :)

(QT is more than linux-only. In fact, that's the whole point. They could simplify it greatly if it was linux-only.)