I want Microsoft to go back to the good old days, when the desktop wasn't cluttered with ads and product placement!
I miss XP SP3. Absolutely the best Windows OS made.
Itβs up there with Windows 7.
@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And half finished programs that manage to both superseded the program it replaces, while still not having all of the features of the original.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
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social the ultimate jab would be shelling out an ad on Windows so to advertise the adlessness of KDE π
"Click here to remove ads!" π
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.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
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.
@nlsmart @kde @kde@lemmy.kde.social Steam deck :archlinux: :kde: is a major factor for this growth :D
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 also no telemetry data! Unless yopu choose so, I did but only a little.
Love β₯ 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!!
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social let's see Paul Allen's start menu
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.
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.
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.
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 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! π
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Also no spyware and bloat. and all the source code freely available.. Million times better. π
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!
@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!
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....
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I thought Windows already had ads in the start menu ever since Windows 8 and Windows 10.
It miss all the different fullscreen popups about choosing edge, Windows Update reboot now or i will do it anyway things.
Me love some KDE Plasma.
Bought a laptop with Win 11. Finally couldn't take it, and had to install Ubuntu.
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