How the fuck do you use this shit without paying money and having to download a gazillion terabytes of useless shit?

compile it and only build the libs you need?
also you don't need to pay for it, you only need to make a free account to download the binaries released by the Qt people

Qt has not gone proprietary, retards who don't understand both FOSS and open source keep claiming that needing to make a free account to download windows binaries somehow means the source code is gone or something
probably FUD spread by the GNOME faggots

The version shipped by your distro is free as in speech.

There's alternatives like aqt where they built qt themselves.

You dont have to pay if your proggie is free as in freedom

>Qt has not gone proprietary
this here is from the qt website:
>In the very early days, Qt was already dual-licensed, but the source code was available under proprietary open source licenses.
what do they mean with "proprietary open source"?

forgot the link
qt.io/faq/3.2.-why-do-you-have-an-agreement-with-kde-about-your-licensing-what-kde-is-and-whats-the-history-of-qt-and-kde

>Simply put, this is how it works: In return for the value you receive from using Qt to create your application, you are expected to give back by buying Qt.

>We're never going to get the code quality that homogeneous groups of corporate tier white men produced in the 80s and 90s ever again.
The vast majority of that code is shit, zoomerbro.
This retard is trolling anyway, using Wine as a UI toolkit is pretty much the most retarded thing you can possibly do.

Why does WINE exist then? Why is there this big push to have Windows software work on linux trough WINE?

Because many companies are unable or unwilling to port their software. Valve isn't helping, telling game developers to not bother with native Linux ports.

>Any better alternatives?
Yes. if you're on Windows, a lot of choice.

>without paying money
Using the gpl version
>(without) having to download a gazillion terabytes of useless shit
Lollmao, you don't. Although I think it's more generally the fault of KDE than qt

Because Windows is a de facto desktop standard and GNU/Linux is not. Stupid question.

Native linux ports suck. I tried them.
How did it get there? How did they get so many Applications? Was it trough having shitty Tools? shitty APIs? or was it trough having good enough tools that would work for decades to come?

>It would be one of the best things to ever happen to the tech sphere.
windows xp source leaked
no one cares

kys nigger. you're too weak to realize the greatness of qt

>kys nigger. you realize the complexity of qt
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Because XP is shit.
Still don't know why there aren't communities developing this stuff though. Projects like ReactOS go through so much effort to change the code to avoid legal backlash, but for some reason don't realize they could just use the dark net. Very weird.

i think it was restrictive and source available? it was definitely incompatible with the GPL
but it doesn't matter because this happened a long long time ago and the only people who bring it up are the extremist FOSSfags
Qt is GPL licensed now

why are you intentionally taking that quote out of context
they were complaining about enterprises taking advantage of free software without giving back, which is a serious problem, and a lot of open source devs are getting tired of it