Try doing everything you would normally do with a computer and see how you would do it on linux.
I found this in the forum that was linked on the planettwatt.com site. https://planetwatt.com/newforum/index.php?topic=1016.msg3100#msg3100
Didn't find any source code though.
Exactly. I have used quite a few products and my thoughts have been. That's cool, but when would I ever need this? The few useful usecases I have for it could use a small local model for very specific purposes and that's it. Not make them billions of dollars level of usefulness.
Those people are completely misinformed then. The OS did not come free. You paid for it. You pay for the license every time you buy a computer. If KDE had that then yeah it would by annoying, but they probably wouldn't be asking then.
Most places tell you how much you are paying for it. I have to go out of my way to not pay for it since I don't plan on using windows when I buy a new device.
While I understand where you are coming from. That goes for a lot of projects in general. Not to mention that KDE is literally an example of the thing you are talking about. KDE has an entire ecosystem of libraries that anyone can use called kde frameworks with many examples of these libraries being used on various projects large and small outside of KDE. They don't see a dime from this either. I recall a conference on TechHut's youtube channel spotting KDE's frameworks in the wild being used by companies at the event.
While I absolutely agree with what you are trying to say and donate to kde myself already. The issue with a lot of comments like yours is that the examples you use are almost always commercial software that already only see's limited use. I get value out of non commerical use applications such as dolphin, kate, konsole, and kdeconnect. Finding examples of popular paid versions of those applications would go a long way in my opinion because it would be something that more people can relate to.
The problem I see with the examples you are giving are the same problems I see when someone uses those examples as reasons why they can't switch to linux in the first place. And that is the fact that while those programs are popular. They aren't used by the vast majority of people who don't have a work related need to use them. Half the people that claim it as an excuse probably don't actually use those programs as well.
Your examples such as Cyberduc, Elmedia, and BBBedit are your stronger examples. Again just my opinion.
You got the desktop wrong. KDE has fractional scaling. Gnome which the reviewer is using because he is using Ubuntu needs the editing.
I'm not sure what is going on here, but in a way it almost sounds like they are calling server side decorations legacy.
From the article it says "As of today, Mutter will style legacy titlebars (i.e. of X11 / Xwayland apps that don’t use client-side decorations) using Adwaita on GNOME."
If I'm reading this correctly they will style X11 / XWayland apps that depend on server side decorations? What about wayland apps that depend on server side decorations? Will those still just be broken windows that you need to know about the "meta + left click" shortcut to move?
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