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[–] aeronmelon 102 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I want Microsoft to go back to the good old days, when the desktop wasn't cluttered with ads and product placement!

Windows 95 desktop showcasing Active Desktop and web portals to different companies and online services.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago

@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And half finished programs that manage to both superseded the program it replaces, while still not having all of the features of the original.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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I like your sarcasm. But I do want to go back to that interface.

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[–] disguy_ovahea 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I miss XP SP3. Absolutely the best Windows OS made.

[–] AtariDump 6 points 6 months ago

It’s up there with Windows 7.

[–] Serinus 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I don't know. Doesn't look nearly as cool as my XP desktop with custom themes did.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I would love to bring back xp

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 6 months ago (3 children)

@[email protected] @[email protected] the ultimate jab would be shelling out an ad on Windows so to advertise the adlessness of KDE 😁

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

"Click here to remove ads!" 😆

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Can I pay KDE to put ads in all that empty space?

/s

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

@maniacalmanicmania @kde You could create an addon to include "suggested recommendations" in the app list, just saying!

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[–] Diplomjodler3 33 points 6 months ago (2 children)

And, hear me out, you can just install and uninstall whatever you want.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Can you also install ads if you wanted to?

/s

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Are you in the market for a plasma widget with ads? That can be arranged.

[–] bhamlin 8 points 6 months ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] Also no spyware and bloat. and all the source code freely available.. Million times better. 💙

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

@[email protected] @[email protected]

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.

https://piaille.fr/@nlsmart/112201825456122857

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Ironically, this looks like an ad for Plasma.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Crazy that it is a selling point, but here we are!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] @[email protected] also no telemetry data! Unless yopu choose so, I did but only a little.
Love ♥ my KDE environment.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Unless you literally opt in!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Opt in??! Before you know it, you're going to suggest that we start to respect our users!!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Me love some KDE Plasma.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Bought a laptop with Win 11. Finally couldn't take it, and had to install Ubuntu.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

So you wanted ads in your terminal instead?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Looks nice. Can you modify a lot of things?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's Linux, and KDE at that. Yes you can customize pretty much everything.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

You can customize shit you didn't even know existed.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] 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!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

@[email protected] @[email protected]

Using KDE Plasma on the Steam Deck is such a nice experience.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] I'm using that exact desktop environment on the Debian 12 machine that hosts my instance

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

It miss all the different fullscreen popups about choosing edge, Windows Update reboot now or i will do it anyway things.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

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....

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

@[email protected] @[email protected] i absolutely love KDE plasma and it's gotta be my most favourite DE (and i especially adore krunner), but honestly, all of the DEs are good! (LXQt my beloved too)

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