diff --git a/CMakeScripts/DefineDependsandFlags.cmake b/CMakeScripts/DefineDependsandFlags.cmake
index 75449ea94b..7a4029120c 100644
--- a/CMakeScripts/DefineDependsandFlags.cmake
+++ b/CMakeScripts/DefineDependsandFlags.cmake
@@ -281,14 +281,13 @@ if(WITH_GSPELL)
     endif()
 endif()
 
-find_package(Boost 1.19.0 REQUIRED COMPONENTS filesystem)
+find_package(Boost 1.19.0 REQUIRED)
 
 if (CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCC AND CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_VERSION VERSION_GREATER 7 AND CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_VERSION VERSION_LESS 9)
     list(APPEND INKSCAPE_LIBS "-lstdc++fs")
 endif()
 
 list(APPEND INKSCAPE_INCS_SYS ${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS})
-# list(APPEND INKSCAPE_LIBS ${Boost_LIBRARIES})
 
 #find_package(OpenSSL)
 #list(APPEND INKSCAPE_INCS_SYS ${OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR})
diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index 635c5afad3..8831204ccd 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -413,8 +413,6 @@ if(WITH_INTERNAL_CAIRO)
 add_dependencies(inkscape_base cairo_ext)
 endif()
 
-target_link_libraries(inkscape_base PUBLIC Boost::filesystem)
-
 # Link the inkscape_base library against all external dependencies
 target_link_libraries(inkscape_base
     PRIVATE
diff --git a/src/io/file-export-cmd.cpp b/src/io/file-export-cmd.cpp
index d2c898d7e4..3617e35678 100644
--- a/src/io/file-export-cmd.cpp
+++ b/src/io/file-export-cmd.cpp
@@ -39,17 +39,8 @@
 #include "extension/init.h"
 
 
-// Temporary dependency : once all compilers we want to support have support for
-// C++17 std::filesystem (with #include <filesystem> ) then we drop this dep
-// (Dev meeting, 2020-09-25)
-
-#ifdef G_OS_WIN32
 #include <filesystem>
 namespace filesystem = std::filesystem;
-#else
-#include <boost/filesystem.hpp>
-namespace filesystem = boost::filesystem;
-#endif
 
 InkFileExportCmd::InkFileExportCmd()
     : export_overwrite(false)
@@ -80,11 +71,7 @@ InkFileExportCmd::do_export(SPDocument* doc, std::string filename_in)
 
     // Get export type from filename supplied with --export-filename
     if (!export_filename.empty() && export_filename != "-") {
-#ifdef G_OS_WIN32
         auto fn = filesystem::u8path(export_filename);
-#else
-        auto fn = filesystem::path(export_filename);
-#endif
         if (!fn.has_extension()) {
             if (export_type.empty() && export_extension.empty()) {
                 std::cerr << "InkFileExportCmd::do_export: No export type specified. "
diff --git a/src/ui/dialog/dialog-manager.cpp b/src/ui/dialog/dialog-manager.cpp
index e082467e95..707648ed44 100644
--- a/src/ui/dialog/dialog-manager.cpp
+++ b/src/ui/dialog/dialog-manager.cpp
@@ -4,14 +4,8 @@
 
 #include <gdkmm/monitor.h>
 #include <limits>
-#ifdef G_OS_WIN32
 #include <filesystem>
 namespace filesystem = std::filesystem;
-#else
-// Waiting for compiler on MacOS to catch up to C++x17
-#include <boost/filesystem.hpp>
-namespace filesystem = boost::filesystem;
-#endif
 
 #include "io/resource.h"
 #include "inkscape-application.h"
@@ -246,11 +240,7 @@ void DialogManager::restore_dialogs_state(DialogContainer *docking_container, bo
         auto keyfile = std::make_unique<Glib::KeyFile>();
         std::string filename = Glib::build_filename(Inkscape::IO::Resource::profile_path(), dialogs_state);
 
-#ifdef G_OS_WIN32
         bool exists = filesystem::exists(filesystem::u8path(filename));
-#else
-        bool exists = filesystem::exists(filesystem::path(filename));
-#endif
 
         if (exists && keyfile->load_from_file(filename)) {
             // restore visible dialogs first; that state is up-to-date
diff --git a/src/ui/widget/framecheck.cpp b/src/ui/widget/framecheck.cpp
index 27b3d5bf36..b7b83193f4 100644
--- a/src/ui/widget/framecheck.cpp
+++ b/src/ui/widget/framecheck.cpp
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 #include <fstream>
 #include <iostream>
-#include <boost/filesystem.hpp> // Using boost::filesystem instead of std::filesystem due to broken C++17 on MacOS.
+#include <filesystem>
 #include "framecheck.h"
-namespace fs = boost::filesystem;
+namespace fs = std::filesystem;
 
 namespace Inkscape {
 namespace FrameCheck {