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)
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.
I want Microsoft to go back to the good old days, when the desktop wasn’t cluttered with ads and product placement!
I like your sarcasm. But I do want to go back to that interface.
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 miss XP SP3. Absolutely the best Windows OS made.
It’s up there with Windows 7.
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
@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And half finished programs that manage to both superseded the program it replaces, while still not having all of the features of the original.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
It miss all the different fullscreen popups about choosing edge, Windows Update reboot now or i will do it anyway things.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social 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! 😂
@triskelion @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Yep. Sounds about right! 😂
Looks nice. Can you modify a lot of things?
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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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.
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.
It’s Linux, and KDE at that. Yes you can customize pretty much everything.
You can customize shit you didn’t even know existed.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social look no ads is a crazy selling point
Crazy that it is a selling point, but here we are!
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.
That would be really funny as a joke
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social 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:
If you would like to learn more, start here:
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 @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social You’ll need to change from Windows to a Operating System that supports Plasma, but yeah
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@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Also no spyware and bloat. and all the source code freely available… Million times better. 💙
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.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social also no telemetry data! Unless yopu choose so, I did but only a little.
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Me love some KDE Plasma.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
Using KDE Plasma on the Steam Deck is such a nice experience.
