Look! No ads!

I want Microsoft to go back to the good old days, when the desktop wasn't cluttered with ads and product placement!

@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 😁

Ironically, this looks like an ad for Plasma.

And, hear me out, you can just install and uninstall whatever you want.

@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.

https://piaille.fr/@nlsmart/112201825456122857

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social also no telemetry data! Unless yopu choose so, I did but only a little.
Love ♥ my KDE environment.

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social let's see Paul Allen's start menu

Looks nice. Can you modify a lot of things?

@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! 😂

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 Also no spyware and bloat. and all the source code freely available.. Million times better. 💙

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social gnome has no ads too :-)

Can I pay KDE to put ads in all that empty space?

/s

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 look no ads is a crazy selling point

@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.

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I would love to use something like Plasma, but there is no equivalent of windows-rs for me to write my own tiling window manager on top of the DE in a sane language 🙃

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

Using KDE Plasma on the Steam Deck is such a nice experience.

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@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 I'm using that exact desktop environment on the Debian 12 machine that hosts my instance

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social hello! I actually have Windows 11 on my pc. This Plasma have the same functionalities but no ads?

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Unfortunately, as daily user of both Plasma and Windows 11, I find them similarly buggy :(

Lol windows

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social plasma windows port when /j

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social i absolutely love KDE plasma and it's gotta be my most favourite DE (and i especially adore krunner), but honestly, all of the DEs are good! (LXQt my beloved too)

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social is there any distro for Raspberry Pi with KDE? I’d love to give it a try 🙌🏻

What about Kubuntu, though?

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
Well, the MS Windows default wallpaper is a lot better. This one looks like someone vomited paint on my screen...

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

I clicked on the kde.org link and

I have no idea what plasma is

total fail when a website doesn't hit you in the head with a 2x4 telling you what it is about

typical

see the this great website, dead for many years but still relevant
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/does-my-web-site-suck/does-my-web-site-suck-checklist-part-one.html

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social My
#desktop #plasma #KDE
Works great! :ablobcatbongokeyboard: :terminal_2:

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

I do when you change the ugly grey color

@kde There already a solution available for that. My Win11 doesn't have ads, but i don't use it that often anyway.