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KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser

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Re: KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser

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Post by Multicomp »

Glad they keep using the mascots to help brand and punch up their images.

Both artist links are either private or show closed commissions, so the artists aren't fishing for exposure to do lead gen, they have a passion to help make KDE be a better marketable product.

I daily drive KDE, but I'm glad that in part thanks go the KDE projects approach to accessibility to newcomers and these artists' desires to help out, we get visual aids for the masses, which are pleasant for those of us who live in walls of text and can help humanize an otherwise dry technical subject, aiding newcomers considering joining the project to have an easier time understanding what they are looking at.

Re: KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser

#32

Post by goalieca »

happymellon wrote: post #27
frameset wrote: post #25

I'm absolutely loving KDE since I returned to desktop Linux after a long absence. What really shocks me is how few of the big distros make KDE a default or "first class" DE choice. If I was a novice user coming from Windows, I'd much prefer KDE, which if you stick to the GUI is very navigable and similar in some ways.

There are two minds of thought. 1. Like yours, KDE is similar to Windows so it's less scary for new users. 2. KDE is similar to Windows so will confuse users when it doesn't run Windows software or doesn't quite behave in the same way. Macs don't look the same and people don't get scared or expect their Windows software to run on it. I can see both arguments, and I've definitely seen internet complaints about both KD…

I think there’s more thoughts to…

I migrated my non-technical mom from windows to Ubuntu in 2005 and my daily support questions on how to do this and that went to once a few weeks. Gnome 2 and Firefox was very simple. The OpenOffice stability was also great when Microsoft switched to ribbon.

Eventually I got her on a Mac and she hasn’t asked a question since. She keeps buying new ones ever since.

Re: KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser

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Post by wiether »

Kenji wrote: post #26
shoobiedoo wrote: post #5

I've been running KDE plasma with wayland in arch for over a year now, it's been an absolute dream come true. Everything just works. Gaming with Proton, dual monitors with different resolutions, Japanese input, I only need to hop onto windows when my son wants to play Minecraft.

Huh, why? Minecraft is Java. It works perfectly fine on Linux, both the server and the client.

Since MS bought it, aren't there two versions, a legacy one called "Java" and the newer one from MS, probably not in Java and with all the cool kids (multiplayer mode) on it?

Re: KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser

#34

Post by c0wb0yc0d3r »

wiether wrote: post #33
Kenji wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh, why? Minecraft is Java. It works perfectly fine on Linux, both the server and the client.

Since MS bought it, aren't there two versions, a legacy one called "Java" and the newer one from MS, probably not in Java and with all the cool kids (multiplayer mode) on it?

There is Java and bedrock. Everyone I know has Java. There are other differences, but multiplayer is available in both.

Re: KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser

#35

Post by fragmede »

PapstJL4U wrote: post #11

Thanks KDE - I always liked the Windows-like design (that's what I would call it coming from Windows like many people). Instead of hiding "power-user" features so well you have to google them to find them, I can interact with the OS on gui or command-line level - really depending mostly on my mood. Although KDEConnect to easily connect a Windows PC, a Linux laptop and an android phone to share files and control my pc…

and iPhone!

Re: KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser

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Post by dapperdrake »

frameset wrote: post #25

I'm absolutely loving KDE since I returned to desktop Linux after a long absence. What really shocks me is how few of the big distros make KDE a default or "first class" DE choice. If I was a novice user coming from Windows, I'd much prefer KDE, which if you stick to the GUI is very navigable and similar in some ways.

GNOME essentially gutted itself when it switched away from GNOME 2.

Somehow they still stuck around as a broken default. Go figure.

IIRC, then a lot of documentation still mentions GNOME first and then KDE second.

Furthermore, Ubuntu without the prefix is GNOME. Kubuntu is KDE. And all the others like Lubuntu, etc. all seem "special" to casual users.

Think of what the average university student installs in a VM, when they need to run some random command-line tool. Plain stock Ubuntu.

And GNOME lives on as a sorry excuse for a bad copy of MacOS desktop looks without the feel.

Re: KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser

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Post by dapperdrake »

happymellon wrote: post #27
frameset wrote: post #25

I'm absolutely loving KDE since I returned to desktop Linux after a long absence. What really shocks me is how few of the big distros make KDE a default or "first class" DE choice. If I was a novice user coming from Windows, I'd much prefer KDE, which if you stick to the GUI is very navigable and similar in some ways.

There are two minds of thought. 1. Like yours, KDE is similar to Windows so it's less scary for new users. 2. KDE is similar to Windows so will confuse users when it doesn't run Windows software or doesn't quite behave in the same way. Macs don't look the same and people don't get scared or expect their Windows software to run on it. I can see both arguments, and I've definitely seen internet complaints about both KD…

Point 2 doesn’t count. As far as Windows 11 is concerned even Windows doesn’t run games like old Windows.

Re: KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser

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Post by Forgeties79 »

happymellon wrote: post #27
frameset wrote: post #25

I'm absolutely loving KDE since I returned to desktop Linux after a long absence. What really shocks me is how few of the big distros make KDE a default or "first class" DE choice. If I was a novice user coming from Windows, I'd much prefer KDE, which if you stick to the GUI is very navigable and similar in some ways.

There are two minds of thought. 1. Like yours, KDE is similar to Windows so it's less scary for new users. 2. KDE is similar to Windows so will confuse users when it doesn't run Windows software or doesn't quite behave in the same way. Macs don't look the same and people don't get scared or expect their Windows software to run on it. I can see both arguments, and I've definitely seen internet complaints about both KD…

Maybe I need to lower my expectations a bit but I feel like someone who is explicitly leaving windows for Linux by that point would understand it can’t run everything windows does right? In the same way basically everyone gets that a lot of software doesn’t operate on Mac and Windows.

Re: KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser

#39

Post by wiether »

c0wb0yc0d3r wrote: post #34
wiether wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since MS bought it, aren't there two versions, a legacy one called "Java" and the newer one from MS, probably not in Java and with all the cool kids (multiplayer mode) on it?

There is Java and bedrock. Everyone I know has Java. There are other differences, but multiplayer is available in both.

You're right, my bad!

I remembered some friends complaining about the fact the since MS, they couldn't play as they did before because of two versions co-existing

Re: KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser

#40

Post by akimbostrawman »

Amazing project my only gripes about KDE is that while the customization is great it can feel overwhelming and opaque. For example multiple different ways to get transparency (Kvantum & qt6ct) but nothing built in or large amount of different but seemingly connected config files with confusing syntax in .config

I hope the work on union will help fix some of that

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