KDE: Welcome to Linux. Do you like the UI of Windows? Well we have an excellent offering for you if that’s your choice. There’s also other DEs that you may select from if that’s your choice.
Windows: Here’s an ad bitch, fuck your choice.
I wish Microsoft kept Windows as a paid product, instead of making it effectively free (with things like free upgrades from older versions) and sticking ads all over the place.
Um Windows 11 Home costs 145€ from ms directly... Free updates yeah, but I'm guessing that's so people aren't stuck without updates eventually.
Shouldn’t you lose your linux membership card for something like this?
Linux police officers come into your house, and they take your membership!
Yeah, Windows does really like to copy Plasma, don't they?
Oh wow, I’m glad to see there’s other people who are reminded of Plasma by Win 11. As someone who never installed or used it the first time I saw someone using it I made a comment about them using Linux. Until I realized…
Microsoft even copied KDE's motto "Simple by default, powerful when needed" in their Windows 11 announcement.
How is that legal?
eeh, right, MS's lawier army vs. KDE dev team. Right by money.
This is hilarious. It really cut me deep. I don't think I've seen Harold used in the Drake format like this either. The look of dejected shame is priceless.
Linux users realizing Windows is fine.
Windows is not “fine” aside from all the non-UI stuff, they’re UI is annoying and slow to me, they moved things behind extra clicks/commands to make it “clean”- stuff I actually use.
And then there’s the whole tracking usage to drop adds in your notification thing… which is a privacy nightmare.
I mean I'm cheering for Linux adoption too, but I've never received an ad beyond the initial install crapware app stubs. I do a sweep on the system settings, clean the junk, and I'm off to the races.
For the unsuspecting users, the privacy concerns are quite bad though.
I got a goddamn pop-up ad for an XBox controller. That really says all you need to know. When there are advertisements in the operating system, the operating system is fired.
I loved it when windows recently started giving me Xbox achievements (aka ads for Xbox) notifications just for playing any PC game on my computer. Like I'm trucking along, playing a steam game, and Xbox game bar shit, just has to wake up from its slumber to say: we randomly noticed you played something on this computer! Have you considered Xbox today?
Eh, you only notice it when it's bad, most of the time for most users it's okay, though I generally argue they just make an unconscious decision to ignore most issues, even before trying out Linux I was flabbergasted at how people literally lose time and get flustered at a problem but then refuse to accept it as such.
Tbh, I thought Windows was fine too, until I had to use it last summer.
I installed it recently in a VM for something and my first thought was "what the fuck?". My last proper Windows installation was 7 and W11 is barely recognizable. The amount of preinstalled garbage alone really shocked me. The system menus have become even more convoluted too and I actually seriously struggled to find various settings. I remember the first attempt at re-categorizing the system settings in I think it was Vista but this is even worse.
Really made me appreciate Plasma even more.
Is most of the UI fine? Yes, absolutely. It's just the rest of the OS that sucks.
Eh, it's okay for most people, I guess. I am just not comfortable being the product. I want to be in control of the things I own.
There is no shortage of different programs that can neuter Windows telemetry and ads but they're always finding new ways to fuck your shit up and I'm done playing the game.
Depends. what version of Windows? 10? I can agree for the most part that yeah, it's fine. Most users loved 7, I...never paid it much mind (mostly because it was good, i guess? Got nothing bad to say about it, at least) and 8 was...Windows 8.
Windows 11 tho? Eh....the UI's ok. I like it better than 10's, at least. Ish. But whose bright idea was it to limit the number of items in the context menu? Or to hide the ribbon that, again, shows you more options? Or basically force ya to make a Microsoft account to even use the thing? (there's apparantly a way to revert some of these things via messing with the Registry) Like, Windows 10 was fine like you said, dunno why 11 needed such drastic changes. And that's without mentioning ads or the habit Windows has of reverting some of the setting you set after an update (tho that was a thing since 10, tbf. Still annoying)
you get ads in kde plasma?
The UI of Windows 11 is fine, at least visually. Windows 8-10 were mostly just ugly. When it comes to configuration options, they lose even against Plasma from a couple years ago.
I have a Mac like UI btw., there is no chance of confusing my Plasma with any Windows :P
Did KDE get a recent makeover? Last I saw, the window decoration still defaults to half rounded and half square. Devs can't decide which one they like.
Next makeover is in February with Plasma 6.
Don't worry, Plasma 6 will default to half square and hat rounded instead.
make it like windows 2000 and i won't have a problem
And you can do that with kde.
How do you even not notice?
He though that new widget with all the advertisements was really nice, and was on the way to thank whoever cleaned his system removing 3/4 of the items on the start menu.
I use Arch btw
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