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Why wait for Microsoft to catch up with what we've been doing for decades? (cdn.masto.host)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by kde@floss.social to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

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Why wait for Microsoft to catch up with what we've been doing for decades?

Get Plasma, a modern, fully functional, clean, privacy-respecting, non-intrusive operating system now, regardless from where you live and ditch Windows for good.

https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/

#windows #DMA

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[–] brb@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

You complain about this and then throw an actual ad into people's faces

[–] ElSupreme@mastodon.sdf.org 2 points 11 months ago

@brb

Heaven forbid KDE talk about it's stuff on KDE's social media instance. 🙄

@kde

[–] jex@mas.to 1 points 11 months ago

@brb @kde An ad for a completely free product with no ads, no DRM, no privacy issues, and better security than Windows or Mac. Most people need that ad.

[–] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 0 points 11 months ago

s/ad/PSA/g

[–] Locutus@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Plasma is a desktop environment and NOT a OS. Might want to know whet you are talking about before posting.

[–] PerryPeak@noc.social 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@Locutus @kde I think they said operating system because people coming from Windows might not know what a desktop environment is

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[–] Sobex@social.sciences.re 1 points 11 months ago

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social @arstechnica @JenLucPiquant

[–] nerdfeelscool@techhub.social 1 points 11 months ago

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Using Gnome 45. Absolute adore it's out of the box polish. But yeah, Linux > Mac >>>>>>> Windows

[–] robertoqs@writing.exchange 1 points 11 months ago

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social

Even though I don't prefer KDE Plasma as my desktop environment, I support this due to being #LibreSoftware and considering what it opposes.

[–] ek_is_anika@transfem.social 1 points 11 months ago

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I already use Plasma 5.27 on Debian GNU/Linux :bunhdhappy:
Though I cannot wait for Plasma 6!

[–] SanchoPanza@mstdn.social 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social

Plasma=operating system ???!!!???🤔

[–] carlschwan@floss.social 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

@SanchoPanza @kde @kde@lemmy.kde.social Sure it's not a full operating system but Plasma and the KDE Frameworks and apps are a large portion of the user space, has a lot of hardware integration and is that the user interact with not with the kernel directly.

[–] carlschwan@floss.social 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@SanchoPanza @kde @kde@lemmy.kde.social Also it's way easier to communicate to non Linux users that Plasma is an operating system than a desktop environnement has Windows and macOS have no concept of desktop environnement.

Or do you call macOS aqua?

[–] SanchoPanza@mstdn.social 1 points 11 months ago

@carlschwan @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social

Wouldn't it be more accurate to describe KDE neon or another GNU/Linux distribution?

[–] SanchoPanza@mstdn.social 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@carlschwan @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social

So if we pull out the kernel/Linux, we can run hardware and applications with Plasma/KDE?

[–] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 11 months ago

Can you define "operating system" in common, non-technical English, as to an end user?

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