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)
@[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!
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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?
/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
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That’s one of the reasons I stick to gnome. The main reason is that I don’t like to rice all that much and I’m used to the gnome layout and UI.
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@[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! 😂
@triskelion @[email protected] @[email protected] Yep. Sounds about right! 😂
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] gotta keep the growth grind going somehow.
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.
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Plasma bigscreen if you want it simple, if you want those extra features go for KDE anyway.
I wouldn’t call big screen a good experience. It is still too new to be useful. I would go for Kodi or Android TV
Honestly KDE has a great out of the box experience
Its not bad. The problem is it simply has way to many options for me personally. Its very busy visually in settings
If the distro has solid Cinnamon repositories I recommend that to noons (in other words, Mint). It is pretty seamless. Honestly the thing really holding back the era of Linux desktops st home is that Libre Office looks different than MS Office. In the office it is the management, SCCM is hard to give up apparently.
@possiblylinux127 SWAY is in between?
Sway is very close to KDE in terms of customization. (Joking, don’t kill me)
@possiblylinux127 very lighter too, and much less battery hungry (it makes so much difference in mobility!)
I haven’t tested KDE expensively but from my experience that is a Wayland vs X thing
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@[email protected] @[email protected] Oh, KDE! *chuckles*
Bought a laptop with Win 11. Finally couldn’t take it, and had to install Ubuntu.
So you wanted ads in your terminal instead?
Ubuntu somehow is still better
Great…
@[email protected] @[email protected] is there any distro for Raspberry Pi with KDE? I’d love to give it a try 🙌🏻
Isnt it the default for raspbian? Kind of the default pi distro?
From my understanding and memory Raspberry Pi OS uses a custom LXDE derivative
Might be right; most of what ive done on pi was in terminal, so I very much could have missed the difference.
Is it available in package manager?
Should be available from raspberry pi’s package repos as
raspberrypi-ui-modsand of course you’ll needxserver-xorgif you don’t already have that
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@in_sympathy @kde @[email protected] I recommend Fedora KDE Spin
For installation instructions, checkout: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/raspberry-pi/
Note: Current stable release of Fedora only includes Plasma 5. Plasma 6 will be included in the upcoming stable release, Fedora 40, which is scheduled for release later this month.
@triskelion @[email protected] @[email protected] I guess that’s what I’ll try then 🙌🏻
@in_sympathy @triskelion @[email protected] @[email protected] I had a really really rough experience with Fedora on the Raspberry Pi 4. Explicitly Fedora Server. Imao I think the ARM build is unexpectedly unstable.
Don’t get me wrong I love Fedora I use it as my primary distro but on the Pi? Well I had a hell of a ride.
How long ago was that. I think they improved the stability more recently
@possiblylinux127 I still had issues with F37. But it is explicitly to mention thst this was the Fedora Server build. Not a Workstation of Spin build.
I think they have made it better since then but I haven’t tested it.
Forget my other comment. This is the right answer
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Theoretically you can install KDE on any distro. The bigger question is how new of packages do you want. Newer is less stable but has the latest features.
You can install KDE on Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian). Just download the ‘Lite’ image, flash and install e.g. kde-plasma-desktop with apt.
You can?!
I’m trying this. Thanks.
Here is a link where they install a desktop environment on Raspberry Pi OS lite using tasksel. The steps except that particular one should be identical.
I’d recommend that you do this on a minimal install. You do not want to end up with conflicts
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Using KDE Plasma on the Steam Deck is such a nice experience.
