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)
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 let’s see Paul Allen’s start menu
It even has a watermark
What about Kubuntu, though?
What about it?
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Maybe you should add an (removable) app showing adds linke Windows, so people coming from MS Windows feel more “at home” – later they can remove the ads and even be more happier then ever!
@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!
Me love some KDE Plasma.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social gnome has no ads too :-)
Gnome is great for those who want a solid out if the box experience. KDE is for those who want to rice.
Everything else is in between (referring to desktops)
@possiblylinux127 SWAY is in between?
Sway is very close to KDE in terms of customization. (Joking, don’t kill me)
@possiblylinux127 very lighter too, and much less battery hungry (it makes so much difference in mobility!)
Honestly KDE has a great out of the box experience
Its not bad. The problem is it simply has way to many options for me personally. Its very busy visually in settings
Plasma bigscreen if you want it simple, if you want those extra features go for KDE anyway.
I wouldn’t call big screen a good experience. It is still too new to be useful. I would go for Kodi or Android TV
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!
Bought a laptop with Win 11. Finally couldn’t take it, and had to install Ubuntu.
So you wanted ads in your terminal instead?
Ubuntu somehow is still better
Great…
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social gotta keep the growth grind going somehow.
@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 😁
I want to create some Ads that make fun of Ad platforms
I’ld donate.
Same
And my 🪓Samefuck I almost made that joke. now I’m angry you got to.
“Click here to remove ads!” 😆
I want Microsoft to go back to the good old days, when the desktop wasn’t cluttered with ads and product placement!
@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.
@kdeI 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 don’t know. Doesn’t look nearly as cool as my XP desktop with custom themes did.
Win98 had themes, and they were absolutely fantastic!!
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
I miss XP SP3. Absolutely the best Windows OS made.
It’s up there with Windows 7.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social is there any distro for Raspberry Pi with KDE? I’d love to give it a try 🙌🏻
Isnt it the default for raspbian? Kind of the default pi distro?
From my understanding and memory Raspberry Pi OS uses a custom LXDE derivative
Might be right; most of what ive done on pi was in terminal, so I very much could have missed the difference.
Is it available in package manager?
Should be available from raspberry pi’s package repos as
raspberrypi-ui-mods
and of course you’ll needxserver-xorg
if you don’t already have that
@in_sympathy @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
You can use as well #openSUSEtumbleweed and select #kde as desktop.@in_sympathy @kde @kde@lemmy.kde.social I recommend Fedora KDE Spin
For installation instructions, checkout: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/raspberry-pi/
Note: Current stable release of Fedora only includes Plasma 5. Plasma 6 will be included in the upcoming stable release, Fedora 40, which is scheduled for release later this month.
@triskelion @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I guess that’s what I’ll try then 🙌🏻
@in_sympathy @triskelion @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I had a really really rough experience with Fedora on the Raspberry Pi 4. Explicitly Fedora Server. Imao I think the ARM build is unexpectedly unstable.
Don’t get me wrong I love Fedora I use it as my primary distro but on the Pi? Well I had a hell of a ride.
How long ago was that. I think they improved the stability more recently
@possiblylinux127 I still had issues with F37. But it is explicitly to mention thst this was the Fedora Server build. Not a Workstation of Spin build.
You can install KDE on Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian). Just download the ‘Lite’ image, flash and install e.g. kde-plasma-desktop with apt.
You can?!
I’m trying this. Thanks.
I’d recommend that you do this on a minimal install. You do not want to end up with conflicts
Here is a link where they install a desktop environment on Raspberry Pi OS lite using tasksel. The steps except that particular one should be identical.
@in_sympathy @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social No personal experience with any of these but Armbian and Manjaro both offer ARM variants for RPi
@kde There already a solution available for that. My Win11 doesn’t have ads, but i don’t use it that often anyway.
Yes it does. You just ignore them
Win11 can break many customization options, including deliberately blocking ads from being removed, and there’s little users can do about it.
KDE is built from the ground up as an open software, and any abuse will be met with forking the code so that everyone can still enjoy their freedom. It will always remain free.