While I don't doubt the situation has changed significantly in 2020, I also would count on a lot of very cheap short-term loans becoming available this year as the EU finally figures out that maybe they should act sooner rather than having a few more embarrassingly public spats over north vs. As a point of comparison, in Q1/2017 they were at 5.42 million Euros in cash reserves and 6.13 million Euros of short-term interest bearing debt. Their cash reserves in Q2 of 2019 were at around 10 million euros, with 2 millions in short-term interest bearing debt. They're a publicly traded company, so we can actually look at somewhat recent data for how their finances are doing. Fortunately that one was relatively short lived and I didn't end up having to chose a different desktop. I did the same thing at the ebuild level for the period Gentoo/KDE tried killing USE=-semantic-desktop (despite upstream KDE/plasma's continued support for the build option), too. I've been carrying a few such patches for years, now.
#GTK VS QT PATCH#
I don't claim to be a dev, but once the specific code is pointed out by bisect to an individual commit, I can often revert or tweak it in a patch I can auto-apply at every update.
![gtk vs qt gtk vs qt](https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--6AOuea4h--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/%3Fu%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fpythonbasics.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F01%2Fqtdesigner.png)
It helps with unwanted "new features" as well. It helps a lot when you can bisect a regression down to an individual commit, as opposed to an entire version upgrade, and I've had considerably more success with my bug reports as well, even compared to when I was running the KDE pre-releases.
![gtk vs qt gtk vs qt](https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/kcalc-adwaita-qt-style.jpg)
Of course that's a lot easier to do on a distro like Gentoo that's scripted-from-sources for everything already, with tools like smart-live-rebuild and ccache greatly reducing the pain. That's why I've "gone live" with KDE and a select few additional packages here, and presumably why the Gentoo/KDE project makes the live ebuild versions that I and others use available in the project overlay.