Text-only browser like Lynx fulfil entirely different purposes and different audiences.Īnother example: Corebird is a GTK-based single-column twitter app focused on integrating tightly with the GNOME desktop. Is it really a shining example of ‘one too many’ web browsers? Or does it serve a niche? Chrome/ium and Firefox aside, the only “real” Qt-competitors that are in active development are Rekonq and… Nope, that’s all I can think of!Įven adding in other toolkits (which, for Qt users, may not be as preferable as using a natively integrated browser) you’re only adding a couple more choices – Midori, Web (formerly ‘Epiphany’) and Opera being three. The abundance of choice is also overstated at times. Take QupZilla for example. To put it another way: a developer making their own app is not a developer subtracted from the effort of a competing one. Web browser A might be written in a toolkit that the developer of Web Browser B doesn’t know the goal of music player A is to focus on music management while music player B, C and D want to emulate various iterations of WinAmp or iTunes circa 2006. In reality things don’t quite work that way.
“Why are there so many apps on Linux that do the same thing?”
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