I want Microsoft to go back to the good old days, when the desktop wasn't cluttered with ads and product placement!
this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2024
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And half finished programs that manage to both superseded the program it replaces, while still not having all of the features of the original.
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I don't know. Doesn't look nearly as cool as my XP desktop with custom themes did.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] the ultimate jab would be shelling out an ad on Windows so to advertise the adlessness of KDE 😁
"Click here to remove ads!" 😆
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Can I pay KDE to put ads in all that empty space?
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@maniacalmanicmania @kde You could create an addon to include "suggested recommendations" in the app list, just saying!
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And, hear me out, you can just install and uninstall whatever you want.
Can you also install ads if you wanted to?
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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
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@[email protected] @[email protected] Also no spyware and bloat. and all the source code freely available.. Million times better. 💙
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@[email protected] @[email protected] 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!!
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@[email protected] @[email protected] 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.
@[email protected] @[email protected] let's see Paul Allen's start menu
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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?
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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.
@[email protected] @[email protected] 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! 😂
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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....
@[email protected] @[email protected] 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!
@[email protected] @[email protected] 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)
@[email protected] @[email protected] I'm using that exact desktop environment on the Debian 12 machine that hosts my instance
It miss all the different fullscreen popups about choosing edge, Windows Update reboot now or i will do it anyway things.
@[email protected] @[email protected] I thought Windows already had ads in the start menu ever since Windows 8 and Windows 10.
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