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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)
Can I pay KDE to put ads in all that empty space?
/s
That would be funny as a joke.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social is there any distro for Raspberry Pi with KDE? I’d love to give it a try 
@in_sympathy Practically all distros ship KDE (you might have to install it though). I think the default RbPi dostro (raspbian?) is based on Debian, which definitely packages KDE, though maybe not the latest version.
@in_sympathy Try "apt get insrall task-kde-desktop".
More info can be found here: https://wiki.debian.org/KDE
@tobtobxx @in_sympathy yeah for KDE Plasma 6 you will likely have to wait until mid 2025 for Debian 13 and maybe even 2026 until the Raspberry Pi Foundation is rebasing Raspberry Pi OS on Debian 13.
You can install KDE on Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian). Just download the ‘Lite’ image and install 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
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.
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-mods and of course you’ll need xserver-xorg if you don’t already have that
What about Kubuntu, though?
What about it?
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And half finished programs that manage to both superseded the program it replaces, while still not having all of the features of the original.
@kde
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
alternativeto.net/software/windows-xp/?platform=l…
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
Cheers, I’ll
Win98 had themes, and they were absolutely fantastic!!
I miss XP SP3. Absolutely the best Windows OS made.
It’s up there with Windows 7.
I like your sarcasm. But I do want to go back to that interface.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social gotta keep the growth grind going somehow.
Bought a laptop with Win 11. Finally couldn’t take it, and had to install Ubuntu.
Great…
Ubuntu somehow is still better
@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 
I’ld donate.
And my Same
fuck I almost made that joke. now I’m angry you got to.
“Click here to remove ads!” 
I want to create some Ads that make fun of Ad platforms
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social plasma windows port when /j
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social actually i've been curious about this for a while. what would it take to port X or Wayland and all the other stuff needed to run a Linux desktop to Windows? could be a fun project for someone with a severe lack of sanity
Some of it already works through WSL.
@soop @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social you already said what it would take, their sanity.
could be a fun project for someone with a severe lack of sanity
KDE already has Windows apps but I suspect making KDE work outside of Linux would be really challenging and probably impossible on Windows
I think it does? However you will not be able to use Linux features.
@nano @kde @kde @soop oh it has, i remember at some point a long time ago i found and installed an x11 client for windows, just so i could use the linux version of something from my main pc (the application itself running on a raspberry pi, and mostly just because i couldn’t get the windows version to compile due to c build systems being an abject disaster)
it was basic but it worked, and i had an application on an external linux computer showing as just a normal window on windows, and i proceeded to use it exactly once
@soop@wetdry.world @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social afaik, KDE 4 apparently could run on Windows, so I imagine its still possible with KDE 6 (you'd just need to port the non-windows components)
@soop You joke but that existed around a decade ago.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Ob unsere Kinder wohl noch computer kaufen können werden, die ihnen gehören?
Win11 can break many customization options, including deliberately blocking ads from being removed, and there’s little users can do about it.
KDE is built from the ground up as an open software, and any abuse will be met with forking the code so that everyone can still enjoy their freedom. It will always remain free.
Yes it does. You just ignore them
And, hear me out, you can just install and uninstall whatever you want.
Can you also install ads if you wanted to?
/s