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[–] samc@feddit.uk 63 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Komrade Desktop Environment

[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Kocialism is when you get your friend to install KDE

And when enough of your friends install KDE THATS Kommunism

~DicK Wolff

[–] archy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago
[–] richardisaguy@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 20 points 2 months ago

No more privileged, unadulterated system calls! Get in line, ration stamp in hand*, and maybe, just maybe, memory will be allocated! 🫡⚒️

*argument

[–] weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 months ago

The Kommunist Party of Wayland (Stallmanist).

[–] SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 months ago

The seize of DE settings

[–] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Communism and FOSS have large overlaps.

[–] SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Alas the same happens with Libertarians and OSS

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I suspect that there are more libertarians in this space than communists.

But that's not saying much because there are relatively few communists to begin with. Lol

[–] cornishon@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago

The F is missing for a reason.

[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago

but why do you have to ask why?

Because it's awesome.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago

Chairman Konqi, do what must be done. Unlimited genocide onto Microsoft.

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago
[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

The knome one is yellow feet on red background

[–] LadyCajAsca@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

kde logo but text and gear yellow above red background

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

Kommunist Distribution Environment + Proletarian Liberation Association for Socialist Marxist Advancement (KDE PLASMA)

[–] mactan@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

it's got nothing on Angola's flag

[–] NGC2346@sh.itjust.works -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Aesthetically it's not that great, letters on a flag don't work as well as actual symbols and the colour scheme could do with not being primary colours.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

It's a communist KDE flag, and it follows suit with other communist flags.

[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yellow isn't a primary colour.

[–] nyan@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Depends on whether you're talking about additive or subtractive colour. Yellow is primary in a subtractive system, but not an additive one.

[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

I suppose so, but in that case either red or yellow is a primary colour not both. And since we are viewing this on an addative screen red is the primary colour.