@[email protected] @[email protected] hello! I actually have Windows 11 on my pc. This Plasma have the same functionalities but no ads?
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No ads, no spyware, no demos, as all software is fully functional and free. Also no subscriptions, no license fees, no unwanted communications.
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@Rita89 @[email protected] @[email protected] You'll need to change from Windows to a Operating System that supports Plasma, but yeah
Ironically, this looks like an ad for Plasma.
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.
Well, check the OP. This IS an ad.
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.
@[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 🙃
It miss all the different fullscreen popups about choosing edge, Windows Update reboot now or i will do it anyway things.
Looks nice. Can you modify a lot of things?
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.
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?
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.
It's Linux, and KDE at that. Yes you can customize pretty much everything.
You can customize shit you didn't even know existed.
@[email protected] @[email protected] If Windows 12 copies the floating Taskbar/panel I'd laugh at how much Windows 11 and later ripped off from KDE Plasma and how poorly it was done! 😂
@[email protected] @[email protected] I thought Windows already had ads in the start menu ever since Windows 8 and Windows 10.
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....
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