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by coldtea 4735 days ago
>Sure, if you slice and dice your definitions enough to "toolkit supported by default if I don't run the headless install of distros which coldtea defines as 'major'" then you might come away with GTK+ as a standard toolkit.

That _I_ "define as major"? You do know that Linux distributions follow a popularity power law distribution, right? With a few, like Ubuntu, RedHat, etc at the top. This has nothing to do with "subjective opinion".

Don't see why you brought up the "headless install" in the play either -- since just before you said about QT being a native GUI toolkit. QT is not native in a "headless install" either, so those are beside the point.

>Apparently everything else is "Marginal" in your book?

My book again? For one, Linux desktop use is marginal in itself, registering as just a 1% blip. Second, of that, there are popular and marginal distributions. If you don't like marginal, I doubt you'd like Wikipedia's term, which is "fringe".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution#Popular_dist...

It was a discussion about GUI toolkits, and you made it into a BS ad hominem attack -- as if usage statistics is something unknown that I pulled out of my ass. In short, your argument is bad, and you should feel bad.