Bro666

Sorry. It shows up on Mastodon, but not here.

Here you go:

You are lacking the same skill as us mods: the capacity of being funny.

A team of people who are very professional and competent at something.

You may be missing the point.

The point is Microsoft wants to (again) force/trick/scam people into buying new hardware. Whether they are lying or not, whether there is a workaround or not, is not the point.

The point is the #Endof10 campaign wants to help people exit this cycle of spending, polluting and tech blackmail Microsoft subjects its users to by offering them an out, helping them switch to Free Software systems. Things like Plasma on Linux are perfectly adequate nowadays for most people—and notice the "most", please: I know there will always be edge cases that can't migrate

But, for most people, with a Linux system decked out with a modern desktop and applications? They will find all they need to carry on being productive on their current machines.

Not really, no. I'll give you an example of how I use it: I have it manage all my travelling stuff/documents. So when you get your boarding pass for your flight, you scan in the barcode (or Itinerary just picks it up from the email as it is integrated with Kontact). Same goes for train tickets, hotel reservations, health certificates (remember COVID vaccination certificates?), etc.

Instead of having a dozen different apps, when you get on trains, reach the airport, or need your health certificate scanned, you pull up Itinerary on your phone. You can group all your docs into one trip and Itinerary will have generated standardised QR codes for all the services. It will also show you plans of airports, stations etc.. Tell You which lifts are working, what eateries are open, and where the toilets are.

There are new features being added all the time, as well as more travel companies. It is very practical.

It is true we are always complaining how understaffed project X and app Y are, but we are not a company, but an association run by volunteers.

In that context, if someone comes in and decides to work on a new project Z, there is no-one with the authority to tell them to go and work on X or Y instead.

That is not how we solve understaffing in KDE. Instead we have to recruit people directly into the understaffed projects. We cannot take them away from whatever their pet projects are.

Also, Karton, does not worsen the understaffing of Plasma in any way. On the contrary: we now have a new developer contributing to the overall KDE software stack that will possibly later tackle stuff in other areas of Plasma, as projects tend to overlap with each other.

This is completely unrelated to the topic at hand and not a KDE issue, but... It has been solved: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-135786

Meet Ritchie Frodomar (scroll down), a legally blind developer who is in charge of bringing KDE's software up to shape on the accessibility front.

Due to this deviating way off topic and degrading int o flames, this thread is now locked. Frankly disappointing.

Also: remember rule 5:

Avoid comparing and/or disparaging various desktop environments, distros, and/or other FLOSS projects. This instance is for discussing the KDE community and the software it produces, and not about pointless flamewars between open source projects.

Because seem people prefer to have choice right of the bat? Giving people control over their decisions, even small ones like this, is the KDE way.

That would not make sense. Plasma does not spy on you, or feed you ads, or make processes clunkier to force you to upgrade to new hardware. All that extra bloat that comes with Windows is just no there.

Except in this case the AI happens all on your computer, so no privacy leaks, big scale water or air polluting, no stealing from artists their work and livelihood... Just a tool that alleviates time and tedium, as it should be