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They should be loosing even more. This damaging corporate closed "AI" hype bubblr must bust before it does even more harm it is already doing to society

That's why I switched to LibreOffice, no "AI" crap and full local and respecting privacy. https://www.libreoffice.org/

Absolutely my favourite too. KDE Plasma is the best all around desktop environment. Very flexible and customizable so you can tune it to emulate any other desktop environment, or just make it into something completely of your own. Also packed with features and nice little thoughtful things no other desktop has. Absolutely love the powerful window management features (although i still miss some tiling features and I miss tabbed windows ala BeOS). Activities features to separate environment for work [projects] and home is also nice and would love to see it extended and supported in more applications. Despite all these powerful features and configurability it is still one of the most light-weight desktop environments, very efficient. And the KDE community is also one of the most if not the most friendly I have encountered. Great job and thanks to all.

Give Up GitHub https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/

And today they are even complicit in genocide and avid supporters of fascist USA dictator Trump, can hardly get less cool then that

Give Up GitHub https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/

Yeah sure I have to support them, but I had to do the same when they were still on Windows. With them using GNU/Linux now I have to support them far less, and far less often and I can more easily do it remotely. Linux just runs more stable and is more resilient to breakage. So even here it is not just better for the family/friends, it is also better with GNU/Linux for me as I have to spend less time on offering support.

duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44092594

Always has been, even years ago. These days it is a huge problem. More of a bloated spyware, adware than an OS.

New in Linux 6.15:

https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_6.15

https://lwn.net/Articles/1015414/

https://lwn.net/Articles/1016119/

"We’ve promoted our KDE Plasma Desktop offering to “Edition” status." Yay!

https://fedoraproject.org/kde/

More and more spyware and idiotic "AI", bleh. Glad I switched to GNU/Linux and other libre/free and opensource software years ago.

> Software is noticeably getting worse every year

Yeah corporate for-profit software sure does. With libre/free and opensource software the trend is the opposite and it actually is getting better as time goes by. I notice this especially comparing all the GNU/Linux computers I have at home with Windows/macOS computers we have to use at work.

Exactly and to use free/libre and opensource software like LibreOffice

And that is why it is best to use completely offline, local, free/libre and opensource software. The only way you can really control it and use it as you want. Int this case something like LibreOffice or if online version is needed something Collabora.

Boycott, divest, sanction: https://www.bdsmovement.net/microsoft

Details: https://www.bdsmovement.net/microsoft

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43601050

Good, it is a start. And much better would be for those EU politicians, journalists and other people to move to Mastodon, Pixelfed, and similar independent platforms. That would make a much better example.

Yes please, long overdue. And use the collected money to fund free (as in freedom) and opensource software (and hardware) projects/communities.

We have Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Lemmy... Let us just use what already exists and is decentralised/federated, is free as in freedom and opensource, has no rich oligarch behind it and controlling it and so on. We nned nothing new just more people using existing stuff that is already much better.

Se also for the other protest https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43585565

And there was another protest

https://www.theverge.com/news/643777/microsoft-bill-gates-st...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43586727

Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43555337

BTW, to support further development of KDE Plasma desktop and KDE apps and all their awesome Free software, they are currently having an end-of-the-year fundraiser. Help if you can: https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/

This, so much this. Also often spyware.

Been testing Fedora 41 Beta of KDE Spin and it is very very good. Still like openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma desktop more but yeah can also highly recommend Fedora 41 KDE Spin.

Been testing Fedora 41 Beta of KDE SPin and it is very very good. Still like openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma desktop more but yeah can also highly recommend Fedora 41 KDE Spin.

There always is a way to opt-out, just delete the account. It is a toxic far-right propaganda platform anyways and it is smartest to just get off of it.

Nice blast from the past. It is incredible how much KDE Plasma has advanced during all these years. To the point that now Plasma 6 is the best desktop environment in the industry. Leaving even proprietary alternatives in the dust.

And it looks like Hacker News/Y Combinator has the same disturbing problem as Meta and the rest of GAFAM/BigTech. Anything criticizing Israel or giving voice to Palestinians is quickly flagged and censored.