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  • @Niall @kde

    In the project we are embracing and onboarding participants to the many choices one has with Linux, meaning we can tailor the software to the needs of the users themselves!

    For newer devices we suggest Fedora (KDE / GNOME) or Linux Mint. For 10+ years old devices Linux Mint XFCE or Lubuntu.

    We will try to understand what they want / expect (classic feel? consistent interfaces? newest features? etc.). We will have some demo computers to try out.

    Other ideas are welcome! 🙂





  • @phoenix Regarding the assumed operating life of devices:

    “For the purposes of our assessment, years of use, which are based on first owners, are modeled to be four years for macOS and tvOS devices and three years for iOS and watchOS devices. Most Apple products last longer and are passed along, resold, or returned to Apple by the first owner for others to use.”

    Hope that helps!


  • @phoenix It looks to be statistical inference based on sampled and modelled data. On p. 57 of the report: “To model customer use, we measure the power consumed by a product while it is running in a simulated scenario. Daily usage patterns are specific to each product and are a mixture of actual and modeled customer use data.”

    The number of devices for the statistical inferences is: “In fiscal year 2018, we sold 217,722,000 iPhone devices, 43,535,000 iPad units, and 18,209,000 Mac products.”





  • @MageInBlack @kde Some background: KDE Eco has funded projects supported by the KDE e.V. and community. The name is derived from the website eco.kde.org, originally created for the FOSS-oriented project “Blauer Engel For FOSS” (BE4FOSS). Since 2021 we’ve been in contact with many FOSS projects/communities as well as people working on measuring software’s energy consumption, digital sustainability, etc. Much is still work in progress and as newsworthy things happen we make sure to post about it.



  • @d3Xt3r @Bro666

    KDE Plasma has been reported to work well on computers up 15 years old, and other FOSS projects run on devices even older than that!

    At our stand in April at the Umweltfestival, we had a Dell computer from 2003. Debian with LXQt ran on it, but the BeOS-based Haiku ran even more smoothly … and many KDE apps have been ported to Haiku. So we could demo GCompris to families with kids on a device that is 21 years old.

    That is the power of transparency and user autonomy!


  • @d3Xt3r @Bro666 These are, in fact, good examples of how Free Software makes it possible to extend hardware operating life. Though the “Opt Green” project falls under the KDE umbrella, the driving force of the project is that the inherent virtues of FOSS make it possible to support hardware for years and even decades after official support ends. And transparency and user autonomy mean you can contribute to make KDE/FOSS even better! That is simply not possible with proprietary software.