Look! No ads!
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)
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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And half finished programs that manage to both superseded the program it replaces, while still not having all of the features of the original.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 like your sarcasm. But I do want to go back to that interface.
@NaoPb @aeronmelon
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).
I don't know. Doesn't look nearly as cool as my XP desktop with custom themes did.
I would love to bring back xp
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.
Cheers, I'll a look at both the page and the book
Win98 had themes, and they were absolutely fantastic!!
I miss XP SP3. Absolutely the best Windows OS made.
It’s up there with Windows 7.
@[email protected] @[email protected] the ultimate jab would be shelling out an ad on Windows so to advertise the adlessness of KDE 😁
"Click here to remove ads!" 😆
I'ld donate.
Same
And my 🪓Samefuck I almost made that joke. now I'm angry you got to.
I want to create some Ads that make fun of Ad platforms
Can I pay KDE to put ads in all that empty space?
/s
@maniacalmanicmania @kde You could create an addon to include "suggested recommendations" in the app list, just saying!
That would be funny as a joke.
And, hear me out, you can just install and uninstall whatever you want.
Can you also install ads if you wanted to?
/s
Are you in the market for a plasma widget with ads? That can be arranged.
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
That would be really funny as a joke
@Diplomjodler3
Including everthing required for your system to boot.
@[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
@nlsmart @kde @[email protected] Steam deck :archlinux: :kde: is a major factor for this growth :D
And people say Linux has a small market share.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Also no spyware and bloat. and all the source code freely available.. Million times better. 💙
Ironically, this looks like an ad for Plasma.
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.
@Bro666
I love it! Do more like this.
@MeDuViNoX
Well, check the OP. This IS an ad.
@[email protected] @[email protected] also no telemetry data! Unless yopu choose so, I did but only a little.
Love ♥ my KDE environment.
Unless you literally opt in!
Opt in??! Before you know it, you're going to suggest that we start to respect our users!!
Protect our children from this monstrosity!
@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.
@[email protected] @[email protected] look no ads is a crazy selling point
Crazy that it is a selling point, but here we are!
Me love some KDE Plasma.
@[email protected] @[email protected] let's see Paul Allen's start menu
It even has a watermark
Bought a laptop with Win 11. Finally couldn't take it, and had to install Ubuntu.
So you wanted ads in your terminal instead?
Great...
Ubuntu somehow is still better
Looks nice. Can you modify a lot of things?
It's Linux, and KDE at that. Yes you can customize pretty much everything.
You can customize shit you didn't even know existed.
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.
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.
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Honestly KDE has a great out of the box experience
Its not bad. The problem is it simply has way to many options for me personally. Its very busy visually in settings
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.
Plasma bigscreen if you want it simple, if you want those extra features go for KDE anyway.
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
@possiblylinux127 SWAY is in between?
Sway is very close to KDE in terms of customization. (Joking, don't kill me)
@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
@[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] @[email protected]
Using KDE Plasma on the Steam Deck is such a nice experience.
@[email protected] @[email protected] I'm using that exact desktop environment on the Debian 12 machine that hosts my instance
It miss all the different fullscreen popups about choosing edge, Windows Update reboot now or i will do it anyway things.
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] @[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)
@[email protected] @[email protected] I would love to use something like Plasma, but there is no equivalent of windows-rs for me to write my own tiling window manager on top of the DE in a sane language 🙃
@LGUG2Z
Assuming you are implying "rust is the only sane language",
take a look at what @kdab is doing, they have been posting quite a bit about #rust #cpp #Qt interop lately.
They might also be able teach you sane C++ 😉
@kde @[email protected]
@[email protected] @[email protected] is there any distro for Raspberry Pi with KDE? I’d love to give it a try 🙌🏻
You can install KDE on Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian). Just download the 'Lite' image, flash and install e.g. kde-plasma-desktop with apt.
You can?!
I’m trying this. Thanks.
Here is a link where they install a desktop environment on Raspberry Pi OS lite using tasksel. The steps except that particular one should be identical.
I'd recommend that you do this on a minimal install. You do not want to end up with conflicts
@in_sympathy @kde @[email protected] I recommend Fedora KDE Spin
For installation instructions, checkout: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/raspberry-pi/
Note: Current stable release of Fedora only includes Plasma 5. Plasma 6 will be included in the upcoming stable release, Fedora 40, which is scheduled for release later this month.
@triskelion @[email protected] @[email protected] I guess that’s what I’ll try then 🙌🏻
@in_sympathy @triskelion @[email protected] @[email protected] I had a really really rough experience with Fedora on the Raspberry Pi 4. Explicitly Fedora Server. Imao I think the ARM build is unexpectedly unstable.
Don't get me wrong I love Fedora I use it as my primary distro but on the Pi? Well I had a hell of a ride.
How long ago was that. I think they improved the stability more recently
@possiblylinux127 I still had issues with F37. But it is explicitly to mention thst this was the Fedora Server build. Not a Workstation of Spin build.
I think they have made it better since then but I haven't tested it.
Forget my other comment. This is the right answer
@in_sympathy @[email protected] @[email protected] https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1872rkw/kde_plasma_on_raspberry_pi_5/
Theoretically you can install KDE on any distro. The bigger question is how new of packages do you want. Newer is less stable but has the latest features.
Isnt it the default for raspbian? Kind of the default pi distro?
From my understanding and memory Raspberry Pi OS uses a custom LXDE derivative
Might be right; most of what ive done on pi was in terminal, so I very much could have missed the difference.
Is it available in package manager?
Should be available from raspberry pi's package repos as
raspberrypi-ui-modsand of course you'll needxserver-xorgif you don't already have that@[email protected] @[email protected] plasma windows port when /j
Some of it already works through WSL.
@soop @[email protected] @[email protected] you already said what it would take, their sanity.
KDE already has Windows apps but I suspect making KDE work outside of Linux would be really challenging and probably impossible on Windows
@possiblylinux127
excuse me doesn't it run on *BSD
I think it does? However you will not be able to use Linux features.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Ob unsere Kinder wohl noch computer kaufen können werden, die ihnen gehören?
@[email protected] @[email protected] gotta keep the growth grind going somehow.
@[email protected] @[email protected] hello! I actually have Windows 11 on my pc. This Plasma have the same functionalities but no ads?
No ads, no spyware, no demos, as all software is fully functional and free. Also no subscriptions, no license fees, no unwanted communications.
A KDE-based system includes lots of customisation possibilities (i.e. you can change practically everything in you system and desktop environment), but is also perfectly functional as is, even if you do not change a thing.
KDE software will work on most hardware, even on older computers.
Note that a KDE system is a different experience from Windows. There are different apps -- instead of Microsoft Office, you would use LibreOffice, for example; instead of Photoshop, you would use Krita or GIMP, etc.. This requires you approach KDE system and its Plasma desktop with an open mind.
On the other hand, KDE brings you lots of interesting features you probably did not think possible, like near perfect integration between your phone and your desktop, plenty of tools to control your system, and easy and safe management of all the apps on your system.
Also, bear in mind that it is created by a community of users, not a company. We are not in it to make money off of you. In fact the community has organised itself as a non-profit charity. It is worth pointing out there is a strong community of teachers within the KDE community, as we produce quite a lot of educational software, including GCompris:
https://www.gcompris.net/
If you would like to learn more, start here:
https://kde.org/
Or just ask. We will be happy to guide you in your discovery of KDE, will be happy to answer your questions, and will appreciate your feedback and thoughts.
@Rita89 @[email protected] @[email protected] You'll need to change from Windows to a Operating System that supports Plasma, but yeah
Lol windows
Sure, but one is buggy without ads (also sneaky ass telemetry). Not a hard choice imo.
That's one of the reasons I stick to gnome. The main reason is that I don't like to rice all that much and I'm used to the gnome layout and UI.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Oh, KDE! *chuckles*
Head of the site: KDE is a Desktop. Right below that it has section displays for Launcher, Notification Tray, etc. Willfull ignorance is the fault of the user, not the site.
Plasma is KDE which is a Linux desktop environment
What do you mean?
The site immediately presents Plasma, explains what it is and gives you buttons to learn more.
"The next generation desktop for Linux"
It's literally right bellow the "Plasma" as the only visible text before you scroll.
IMO, that site isn't good. But it really doesn't have this problem you are complaining about.
@marcos
I don't see that text.
@failedLyndonLaRouchite
@failedLyndonLaRouchite
Please tell me. Is Windows 11 page any better?
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/
@kde
Have you heard of "Themes"?
(Psst! Show them this:)
@kde There already a solution available for that. My Win11 doesn't have ads, but i don't use it that often anyway.
Win11 can break many customization options, including deliberately blocking ads from being removed, and there's little users can do about it.
KDE is built from the ground up as an open software, and any abuse will be met with forking the code so that everyone can still enjoy their freedom. It will always remain free.
Yes it does. You just ignore them