Look! No ads!
Take back control. Choose Plasma.
https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/
(Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/12/24128640/microsoft-windows-11-start-menu-ads-app-recommendations)
Look! No ads!
Take back control. Choose Plasma.
https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/
(Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/12/24128640/microsoft-windows-11-start-menu-ads-app-recommendations)
I want Microsoft to go back to the good old days, when the desktop wasn't cluttered with ads and product placement!
@aeronmelon
And half finished programs that manage to both superseded the program it replaces, while still not having all of the features of the original.
@kde
I prefer a graphical user interface free free from advertisements also.
For the last decade, I've been using primarily Linux (which I started to experiment with more than 20 years ago). I also use some older Apple OS X systems and occasionally boot a workstation running Windows 7 (but that's the dunce sitting in the corner).
https://alternativeto.net/software/windows-xp/?platform=linux
I assume there's a decent chance that there are some Linux users that would feel similarly since there are 25 distros that are similar to XP
Edit: re: your username, if you haven't read Robert Aspirin's Myth series, starting with Another fine Myth, you really should do yourself a favor and read them. They're spoof fantasy. Funny and magical.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social the ultimate jab would be shelling out an ad on Windows so to advertise the adlessness of KDE 😁
@maniacalmanicmania @kde You could create an addon to include "suggested recommendations" in the app list, just saying!
Add a drm module to it too to make sure it's being built from the right sources and disable the whole thing if it gets a whiff of closed source
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Also no spyware and bloat. and all the source code freely available.. Million times better. 💙
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
Here are the percentages for Linux usage from January 2023 to March 2024 :
January 2023: 2.91%
February 2023: 2.94%
March 2023: 2.85%
April 2023: 2.83%
May 2023: 2.7%
June 2023: 3.07%
July 2023: 3.12%
August 2023: 3.18%
September 2023: 3.02%
October 2023: 2.92%
November 2023: 3.22%
December 2023: 3.82%
January 2024: 3.77%
February 2024: 4.03%
March 2024: 4.05%
Indeed, this trend doesn't seem to be stopping anytime soon !
The figures for open source for the months of February and March 2024.
@nlsmart @kde @kde@lemmy.kde.social Steam deck :archlinux: :kde: is a major factor for this growth :D
I've caught some KDE Plasma ads somewhere. I think it was either in Boost for Lemmy or maybe on unfettered desktop reddit.
Honestly good for them. I'm totally fine with OSS projects tossing a few punches via marketing when the news cycle allows.
We have made ads... ironically. With tongues stuck firmly in cheeks, we tried to imagine how one would go about making ads for things as unmarketable as Konsole, Elisa, Okular, some minor Plasma features, etc.
We definitely posted this with promotional purposes 😬 . Word-of-mouth is great, but it sometimes needs a shove to reach new people. We hope you folks don't mind.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social also no telemetry data! Unless yopu choose so, I did but only a little.
Love ♥ my KDE environment.
Opt in??! Before you know it, you're going to suggest that we start to respect our users!!
@Allero what I, said 🙂. I did opt in, but only on tier 2 or 3 of 8 or so. Idk exactly what I selected.
Just highlighted :) Tracking is opt-in, not opt-out, which is super cool and makes me actually wanna share that data. Just decided to switch from level 3 to level 4 out of 5.
The amount that you can customize is actually insane.
If you tinker at all, you would be floored at why you didn't use it before.
It's also really easy to move from Windows to a KDE distro
I've been a Windows user for 30 years and switched to Fedora 40 (kde spin) 2 weeks ago. Can confirm the switch was easy. It's been a long time since I had that much fun with my computer.
To a genuinely disturbing and annoying degree.
The default customization is ~windows levels, but radical Linux desktops have some completely insane shit going on, customizing things you didnt even notice existing in truly weird ways. Anybody want to post some?
That was the thing that drew me toward KDE, super configurable. It seems like gnome tries to hide advanced stuff for users or just not offer it. That and it's beautiful and full-featured.
That sounds great. I had to use several apps to modify gnome into something that works for me. I don't want to change my workflow just because a UI designer came up with something new.
The app promotions can be disabled in the Settings section of Windows 11, but it appears that Microsoft will enable these by default
This should just be outright illegal for any new feature which "adds" "content". Guess it will be another one of those funnies like the joke birthday-candles you can't ever really get: update, "oops" reset your preference. Fucking moneygrabbers, it's just never enough is it.
Gnome is great for those who want a solid out if the box experience. KDE is for those who want to rice.
Everything else is in between (referring to desktops)
Its not bad. The problem is it simply has way to many options for me personally. Its very busy visually in settings
I wouldn't call big screen a good experience. It is still too new to be useful. I would go for Kodi or Android TV
If the distro has solid Cinnamon repositories I recommend that to noons (in other words, Mint). It is pretty seamless. Honestly the thing really holding back the era of Linux desktops st home is that Libre Office looks different than MS Office. In the office it is the management, SCCM is hard to give up apparently.
@possiblylinux127 very lighter too, and much less battery hungry (it makes so much difference in mobility!)
I haven't tested KDE expensively but from my experience that is a Wayland vs X thing
I prefer KDE in every way. I tried to like - even love - GNOME but always come back to KDE. It's superior in many ways, it can even mimick GNOME better than GNOME itself.
KDE is faster, smoother and more powerful than GNOME on all my 8 machines. These machines' age range from mid 2000s to 2023 and KDE comes on top.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
Using KDE Plasma on the Steam Deck is such a nice experience.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Maybe you should add an (removable) app showing adds linke Windows, so people coming from MS Windows feel more "at home" -- later they can remove the ads and even be more happier then ever!
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I'm using that exact desktop environment on the Debian 12 machine that hosts my instance
I'm really curious to know which version of KDE Microsoft was copying that gave them the idea to insert ads in the first place....