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Why does Discover offer me to "update" GNOME if I'm using KDE Plasma? (lemmy.org)
submitted 4 months ago* by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Does this even make sense to you? I acknowledge I am not an experienced Linux user yet, but this seems most weird to me; why would KDE Plasma offer me to update GNOME?

For context, I am using Debian 13 Stable, which I installed just with KDE Plasma - so I'm not running more than one DE, nor did I install more than this.

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[–] 9 points 4 months ago

The GNOME platform application is used by flatpaks. Basically, a flatpak can be built against/designed to be used with a specific visual toolkit. To do that, it needs to download specific parts of that toolkit, which is what you're seeing.

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