There's no Snap, which some will see as a win, but there is Flatpak
You heard it here first, folks! Uninstall Snap and install Flatpak to make your distro more like Windows!
this post was submitted on 06 Dec 2024
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But why KDE? Even LXDE/Qt would suffice to emulate Windows 11' taskbar.
Why not?
Years ago I got my parents to switch from internet explorer to firefox by putting IE's icon over firefox...this has the same vibes. If you have someone technologically illiterate in your life who pretty much only uses the browser...yeah this idea could work.
I did the exact same thing. IceWM with XP skin, Firefox with an extension that changed the name in the title bar to internet explorer + a IE theme. Then Thunderbird with an outlook theme. For years they used it like this and no longer did I have to clean out viruses or remove IEs additional toolbars that plagued that era.
Occasionally I would run some updates and that was it.
I have an older friend that has no idea that his laptop uses Windows. He just wants to be able to browse Craigslist for cars and junk. Seems like he has to get a new laptop every two years because his "old one got too slow". I should do something like this for him. He'd never know the difference.
~Worked fine for my grandparents. The switch for them was about as annoying as switching windows versions
And it greatly reduced the spyware cleanup visits
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