Big Tech’s disregard for privacy laws and individuals’ personal data has become a matter of national security. As news of willful mismanagement fill the headlines on an almost daily basis, the world is beginning to turn away from expensive and insecure spyware-riddled software imposed by the likes of Microsoft, Google, Meta, Apple, et al.

The investment will be used to strengthen the structural reliability and security of KDE’s core infrastructure, including Plasma, KDE Linux, and the frameworks underlying its communication services.

  • Zeoic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    My way of doing things is probably built on top of having a not very great memory and focus issues, so its actually difficult for me to operate without visual knowledge of an app being open still. That is also one reason it took me so long to make the switch to linux in the first place, GUIs are just so much easier than memorizing commands for me. More of a pattern learner than memorizing words or commands.

    • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 hours ago

      Yeah, that’s totally fair. Maybe I should mess with gnome again and see what customizations are available now, that’s always been the biggest draw to kde for me. And the desktop widgets are fun.