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KDE e.V. is announcing today it has received a donation of 200,000 USD from the Pineapple Fund.
With this donation, the Pineapple Fund recognizes that KDE as a community creates software which benefits the general public, advances the use of Free Software on all kinds of platforms, and protects users' privacy by putting first-class and easy to use tools in the hands of the people at zero cost. KDE joins a long list of prestigious charities, organizations and communities that the Pineapple Fund has so generously donated to.
"KDE is immensely grateful for this donation. We would like to express our deeply felt appreciation towards the Pineapple Fund for their generosity" said Lydia Pintscher, President of KDE e.V.. "We will use the funds to further our cause to make Free Software accessible to everyone and on all platforms. The money will help us realize our vision of creating a world in which everyone has control over their digital life and enjoys freedom and privacy".
(Score: 2) by Arik on Wednesday February 21 2018, @02:28AM (2 children)
Slack doesn't ship it, Gentoo will allow you to exclude it globally. Ubuntu is for grannies that couldn't find the checkbox to avoid Windows 10. Redhat is for PHBs that want more leverage with Microsoft.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by letssee on Wednesday February 21 2018, @10:11AM (1 child)
> Clueless Noobs.
*And* people who just want to *use* their laptop, instead of customizing the heck out of the desktop. I agree KDE is more fun. It has more bells and whistles and is more customizable. But every time I use KDE I get lost in the myriad customization options. Also, for day to day (boring) work it has a very distracting cluttered look (IMHO of course).
If you take a moment to learn gnomes keyboard shortcuts, it mostly just gets out of the way.
So I actually *like* gnome (though I don't agree with everything the gnome devs decide, I like it overall). I like KDE as well, but I'm just less productive in KDE. But then I used to be a Windowmaker user, and I liked Unity as well, so I appear to be the exception to the rule.
As for *noobs*, my first distro was Slackware in 1994 and linux has been my main OS since then (windows strictly for gaming), so I consider myself not-noob :-)
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday February 21 2018, @05:55PM
But every time I use KDE I get lost in the myriad customization options.
Who exactly is standing over you with a weapon and **forcing** you to open up the System Settings dialog and customize things?
If you don't want to customize it, don't.
Honestly, I read this every single time someone has something negative to say about KDE, and it's simply stupid.