Why wait for Microsoft to catch up with what we've been doing for decades?
Get Plasma, a modern, fully functional, clean, privacy-respecting, non-intrusive operating system now, regardless from where you live and ditch Windows for good.
this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2023
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@01adrianrdgz @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
Take it from an old-timer: Microsoft would crush KDE without a second thought if it ever grew beyond what they considered acceptable in the desktop/end user market share.
All the MS ❤️ Linux is at best for servers only, not anything that can benefit the common people. KDE aims for the common people.
At worst it is PR bullshit ( ⬅️ it's this one).
@Bro666 @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social oh that's bad :c I'm sorry for misunderstanding, I think both organizations should be fair to each other that's all, thank you so much for clarifying!! c:
@01adrianrdgz @Bro666 @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social right when Microsoft said "Microsoft ❤️ Linux", they also announced something big: .NET MAUI. .NET is Microsoft's standard library and runtime when coding C#. It had become cross-platform already, so you can now compile for Linux. Only thing missing was a good UI framework. MAUI was invented to address this. You know what happened? MAUI supports Windows, Mac, Android and iPhone. Not Linux.
Microsoft doesn't love Linux, Microsoft loves using Linux for Azure.
@torben @01adrianrdgz @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
Interestingly related: when KDE devs complained to Microsoft that, due to the fact that name of their new product and similarity in functionality to KDE's own Maui project
https://mauikit.org/
they were causing confusion and potentially violating KDE's trademark, in the Microsoft forums KDE was told to sue them or f**k off.
KDE does not have much money, much less enough to embark in a costly legal battle with Microsoft with a doubtful outcome.
@torben @01adrianrdgz @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
They also copied the slogan for KDE Plasma 5 ("Simple by default, powerful when needed") and used a thinly veiled variation to promote Windows 11.
https://twitter.com/ClauCambra/status/1466153819713191947
They were also notified and they again ignored the notification.
@Bro666 @01adrianrdgz @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social holy, didn't know that. That's straight up evil.
@01adrianrdgz @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
How can they ever be. one is greedy predatory megacorporation only motivated by power and money.
The other is a grassroots volunteer-powered association that explicitly advocates both in word and action improving the lot of fellow humans by giving control over technology to everybody.
They both produce software which is often functionally similar. A collision sooner or later is inevitable.