alt Hacker NewsTotal KDE fan and that's all I run at home. It's an interesting study also in desktop environment and software written in C++ and just how hard it is to get something that works for most people. Mistakes, corrections, building the basic blocks like Qt in the early days and keeping a bunch of people with differing cultures / tastes / backgrounds/needs motivated to make it better every day - fascinating achievement.
Thank you KDE folks - I contribute in terms of bug reports and attempts at fixes sometimes but this time I am signing up for a monthly donation - I encourage people to do what they can to keep a good thing going! https://kde.org/donate/
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I also use KDE daily and need to add it to my yearly donations list (alongside FreeBSD, Signal, Bottles, and a few others).
Im a KDE user since the early Plasma 5 days, which is now more than a decade ago. It's awesome, usable, configurable, sleek and fun!
A week ago I bought a cheap mini-htpc and put Plasma Bigscreen on it, using a phone with KDEconnect as remote. So easy to use! So much better than AndroidTV let alone proprietary crap.
KDE is just great.
Yeah, additionally anyone at Microsoft that keeps throwing out half usable COM frameworks for C++ should spend some time with KParts, KIO and Qt D-Bus bindings, maybe they would finally learn how to properly design one.
Agreed. I'm a late-comer to KDE, having used Linux for over 20 years but only switched to KDE in the past year. Too many annoying design decisions in GNOME and I got sick of wasting time configuring the trendy minimalist WMs. I find KDE to be a breath of fresh air. It's got sensible defaults, gets out of my way for the most part, and it's improved a lot since I last tried it in the mid-2000s.