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 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And half finished programs that manage to both superseded the program it replaces, while still not having all of the features of the original.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 miss XP SP3. Absolutely the best Windows OS made.
It’s up there with Windows 7.
I don’t know. Doesn’t look nearly as cool as my XP desktop with custom themes did.
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
Win98 had themes, and they were absolutely fantastic!!
@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 😁
“Click here to remove ads!” 😆
I’ld donate.
Same
And my 🪓Samefuck I almost made that joke. now I’m angry you got to.
I want to create some Ads that make fun of Ad platforms
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!
That would be funny as a joke.
And, hear me out, you can just install and uninstall whatever you want.
Can you also install ads if you wanted to?
/s
Are you in the market for a plasma widget with ads? That can be arranged.
Add a drm module to it too to make sure it’s being built from the right sources and disable the whole thing if it gets a whiff of closed source
That would be really funny as a joke
@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
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.
@nlsmart @kde @kde@lemmy.kde.social Steam deck :archlinux: :kde: is a major factor for this growth :D
And people say Linux has a small market share.
Ironically, this looks like an ad for Plasma.
I’ve caught some KDE Plasma ads somewhere. I think it was either in Boost for Lemmy or maybe on unfettered desktop reddit.
Honestly good for them. I’m totally fine with OSS projects tossing a few punches via marketing when the news cycle allows.
We have made ads… ironically. With tongues stuck firmly in cheeks, we tried to imagine how one would go about making ads for things as unmarketable as Konsole, Elisa, Okular, some minor Plasma features, etc.
We definitely posted this with promotional purposes 😬 . Word-of-mouth is great, but it sometimes needs a shove to reach new people. We hope you folks don’t mind.
@Bro666
I love it! Do more like this.
@MeDuViNoX
Well, check the OP. This IS an ad.
@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.Unless you literally opt in!
Opt in??! Before you know it, you’re going to suggest that we start to respect our users!!
Protect our children from this monstrosity!
@Allero what I, said 🙂. I did opt in, but only on tier 2 or 3 of 8 or so. Idk exactly what I selected.
Just highlighted :) Tracking is opt-in, not opt-out, which is super cool and makes me actually wanna share that data. Just decided to switch from level 3 to level 4 out of 5.
@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.
Bought a laptop with Win 11. Finally couldn’t take it, and had to install Ubuntu.
So you wanted ads in your terminal instead?
Great…
Ubuntu somehow is still better
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social let’s see Paul Allen’s start menu
It even has a watermark
Looks nice. Can you modify a lot of things?
It’s Linux, and KDE at that. Yes you can customize pretty much everything.
You can customize shit you didn’t even know existed.
The amount that you can customize is actually insane.
If you tinker at all, you would be floored at why you didn’t use it before.
It’s also really easy to move from Windows to a KDE distro
I’ve been a Windows user for 30 years and switched to Fedora 40 (kde spin) 2 weeks ago. Can confirm the switch was easy. It’s been a long time since I had that much fun with my computer.
To a genuinely disturbing and annoying degree.
The default customization is ~windows levels, but radical Linux desktops have some completely insane shit going on, customizing things you didnt even notice existing in truly weird ways. Anybody want to post some?
That was the thing that drew me toward KDE, super configurable. It seems like gnome tries to hide advanced stuff for users or just not offer it. That and it’s beautiful and full-featured.
That sounds great. I had to use several apps to modify gnome into something that works for me. I don’t want to change my workflow just because a UI designer came up with something new.
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.
