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Bro666

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  • Malicious KDE theme can wipe out all your data

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  • You must have heard that old chestnut about how "the weakest security link in the security chain is the user" by now. There is nothing any technology can do if the user decides to install insecure stuff. Even before today, the KDE Store prominently displayed warnings about being careful with the content.

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  • You can also turn things on its head, like

    "Krita supports a wide range of tablets and drawing devices out of the box, so you won't miss expensive closed proprietary alternatives like Photoshop one bit".

    👆 improvised, but you get the idea. You get to reference something the user may know (and this helps you out giving them a clear idea of what you are talking about), and you cast "the alternative" (Photoshop) in a less positive light than the free/libre software at the same time.

  • This weekend I am contributing to Transitous. You should too.

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  • I think "free" is okay. If the software does come at no upfront cost, then fine, why not add that as an incentive to get people on board. They will figure out how to "pay back" sooner or later.

    I can tell you a word I do avoid, and that is "alternative". It makes FLOSS items sound like cheap knockoffs, always playing catch-up with their supposed proprietary and closed equivalents, always seeking feature parity, but never really getting as good as the original. This is not the case. Most software projects, once they reach maturity, more often than not, evolve into their own thing.

  • The last few weeks in KDE: It’s coming… it’s coming… it’s coming

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  • The migration to Qt6 and the work being carried out on Wayland, which is all going into Plasma 6.0, is going to allow massive changes that will be introduced over the 6.x series. There are some pretty cool features in 6.0, but the bigger changes will come over the next few point versions.

  • Plasma and apps for mobile also getting overhauled for 6.

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  • Gwenview, Dolphin, digiKam, AudioTube, Elisa, NeoChat, GCompris...

  • It's coming! The date for the big release of KDE's new desktop environment has been set.

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  • I think that KDE's track record shows that devs do not remove stuff just because. Quite the contrary.

    But sometimes stuff does get removed and often it is because or it is unmaintained (and been so for a while), or because it is built on some old technology that cannot be replicated in the new environment without a complete rewrite.

    In both cases, the reason a feature is discontinued boils down to a lack of resources.

    Fortunately, the solution is simple: do your part.

    KDE is a porous, grassroots and welcoming community. Join us and become part of the effort to build one of the largest and most diverse collections of end user, publicly-owned, free software projects in existence.

    I know, I know: "but I can't code", etc., etc. But there are many things you can do to help. You can help organise Akademy 2024, you can translate menus and system messages, you can write documentation, draw wallpapers, design icons, edit videos, support booth staff at events, triage and report bugs, or just donate and contribute to financially supporting devs who still have to hold down pesky day jobs that get in the way of coding for KDE... The list goes on and on.

    The point is, regardless of your level of technical knowledge, the more resources you free up elsewhere, the more time the people who do know how to code will have to maintain and translate software and features in the new Plasma 6 environment.

  • Why does the default language of the Krita website is Spanish?

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  • "una lengua", pero, sí, totalmente de acuerdo.