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@SpaceNoodle

While input and feedback is good, there are ways of delivering it without making it demoralising.

@SpaceNoodle @kde

It's early days and WiP. Give them a chance.

@b100dian @[email protected] @[email protected]

Here's the thing: firstly, There are people who don't know things you do. if you already knew about this, this post is not for you. It's for the people who were not aware of the dangers of using Microsoft's alternative.

Secondly: KDE is not a news agency. Their main mission is to inform, sometimes of stuff that is old, but persevering in time, and often their posts will not cover the headlines of the day. But that doesn't matter, because they are not a news agency.

@loutr @Kalcifer

You don't even need to connect computer anywhere. You can connect, say, your iPad with your Android phone and share stuff from one to another.

@[email protected] @[email protected]

Trying it out today, I had a flashback that reminded why I loved this player so much: when I pressed the "pause" button, instead of immediately cutting off, the track gradually faded into silence.

It was not the smorgasbord of features, but the small things like this that set Amarok head and shoulders above all other players. Can't wait to see it brought up to speed again.

@aral @[email protected] @[email protected]

Here, you dropped this...

Because, guess what? Plasma does not force you to use Firefox either.

@enigma @[email protected] @[email protected]

During the Clinton era Microsoft was a hair's breadth away from being broken apart for all its anti-competitive monopolistic shenanigans -- including the browser war thing that you mention.

But then Bush Junior got into power (I resist using the words "was elected") and he swept all that away.

@mdwalters @[email protected] @[email protected]

YES!!!!

@torben @01adrianrdgz @[email protected] @[email protected]

They also copied the slogan for KDE Plasma 5 ("Simple by default, powerful when needed") and used a thinly veiled variation to promote Windows 11.

https://twitter.com/ClauCambra/status/1466153819713191947

They were also notified and they again ignored the notification.

@torben @01adrianrdgz @[email protected] @[email protected]

Interestingly related: when KDE devs complained to Microsoft that, due to the fact that name of their new product and similarity in functionality to KDE's own Maui project

https://mauikit.org/

they were causing confusion and potentially violating KDE's trademark, in the Microsoft forums KDE was told to sue them or f**k off.

KDE does not have much money, much less enough to embark in a costly legal battle with Microsoft with a doubtful outcome.

@01adrianrdgz @[email protected] @[email protected]

How can they ever be. one is greedy predatory megacorporation only motivated by power and money.

The other is a grassroots volunteer-powered association that explicitly advocates both in word and action improving the lot of fellow humans by giving control over technology to everybody.

They both produce software which is often functionally similar. A collision sooner or later is inevitable.

@01adrianrdgz @[email protected] @[email protected]

Take it from an old-timer: Microsoft would crush KDE without a second thought if it ever grew beyond what they considered acceptable in the desktop/end user market share.

All the MS ❤️ Linux is at best for servers only, not anything that can benefit the common people. KDE aims for the common people.

At worst it is PR bullshit ( ⬅️ it's this one).