KDE for Windows 10 Exiles – Upgrade your software, not your computer
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Re: KDE for Windows 10 Exiles – Upgrade your software, not your computer
#2It's not relevant now, but back when I started using Linux (Red Hat 7.1 I think) what made me choose KDE was that with KDE all the apps had a conspicuous 'K' in their names whereas Gnome app did not, so it was easier to get a consistent user experience.
After that it was Konqueror with the different protocols like "wk:" in the address bar to search Wikipedia.
Then when I learned more, it just seemed like Qt was a much more capable foundation to build a desktop on, and I wanted to bet on the winner.
In the end KDE did win the desktop... because they built WebKit (as KHTML) and everything is now a webapp and the desktop is otherwise irrelevant.
Re: KDE for Windows 10 Exiles – Upgrade your software, not your computer
#3This really just blows my mind that Microsoft believes people are going to throw their perfectly functional laptops/desktops into the trash. All Microsoft has to do to keep people on Windows and in the Microsoft ecosystem would be to offer a supported version of Windows 11 without the CPU and TPM 2.0 requirements.
For me, every one of the older machines in my household (laptops and desktops) that are currently on Windows 10 that cannot run Windows 11 in a fully supported manner will be migrated to a KDE based Linux distro.
Re: KDE for Windows 10 Exiles – Upgrade your software, not your computer
#4This really just blows my mind that Microsoft believes people are going to throw their perfectly functional laptops/desktops into the trash. All Microsoft has to do to keep people on Windows and in the Microsoft ecosystem would be to offer a supported version of Windows 11 without the CPU and TPM 2.0 requirements. For me, every one of the older machines in my household (laptops and desktops) that are currently on Win…
This is, in fact, the point. They do not want the support burden and negative security posture of supporting billions of computers that cannot have a locked bootloader.
Re: KDE for Windows 10 Exiles – Upgrade your software, not your computer
#5KDE is actually a good example of why non-Linux users say that Linux users would actually prefer to use Windows.
Re: KDE for Windows 10 Exiles – Upgrade your software, not your computer
#6This really just blows my mind that Microsoft believes people are going to throw their perfectly functional laptops/desktops into the trash. All Microsoft has to do to keep people on Windows and in the Microsoft ecosystem would be to offer a supported version of Windows 11 without the CPU and TPM 2.0 requirements. For me, every one of the older machines in my household (laptops and desktops) that are currently on Win…
You can install Win 11, but not in-place. Need to use boot media. This is an obstacle for many people, but not someone who would I stall Linux. (From boot media)
Re: KDE for Windows 10 Exiles – Upgrade your software, not your computer
#7It's not relevant now, but back when I started using Linux (Red Hat 7.1 I think) what made me choose KDE was that with KDE all the apps had a conspicuous 'K' in their names whereas Gnome app did not, so it was easier to get a consistent user experience. After that it was Konqueror with the different protocols like "wk:" in the address bar to search Wikipedia. Then when I learned more, it just seemed like Qt was a muc…
> everything is now a webapp
When, why and how became this a good thing?
Re: KDE for Windows 10 Exiles – Upgrade your software, not your computer
#8This really just blows my mind that Microsoft believes people are going to throw their perfectly functional laptops/desktops into the trash. All Microsoft has to do to keep people on Windows and in the Microsoft ecosystem would be to offer a supported version of Windows 11 without the CPU and TPM 2.0 requirements. For me, every one of the older machines in my household (laptops and desktops) that are currently on Win…
Average computer literacy of computer users is at an all time low. If trillion dollar company says it's time to consume more product, they must know something I don't.
Re: KDE for Windows 10 Exiles – Upgrade your software, not your computer
#9KDE is actually a good example of why non-Linux users say that Linux users would actually prefer to use Windows.
This is weird to say when Microsoft has been very obviously inspired by KDE.
Re: KDE for Windows 10 Exiles – Upgrade your software, not your computer
#10This really just blows my mind that Microsoft believes people are going to throw their perfectly functional laptops/desktops into the trash. All Microsoft has to do to keep people on Windows and in the Microsoft ecosystem would be to offer a supported version of Windows 11 without the CPU and TPM 2.0 requirements. For me, every one of the older machines in my household (laptops and desktops) that are currently on Win…
This is, in fact, the point. They do not want the support burden and negative security posture of supporting billions of computers that cannot have a locked bootloader.
I get that security is part of the posturing - I just think it is tone deaf to the reality that not everyone is going to be willing to spend $500-$2000 USD just to be able to "run" Windows 11.
I have friends and family that will continue to run EOL Windows 10 which is worse unless I convince them to migrate to Linux.