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muesliI feel like someone at Microsoft is watching KDE Plasma a little bit too closely...
Plasma's slogan since 2017: "Simple by default, powerful when needed"
Microsoft advertising Windows 11: "Simple by default, powerful by choice"
Really? 🤔
dani little ponie 
@fribbledom introducing microsoft's latest operating system, kde plasma But Bad
Haelwenn /элвэн/ 
@fribbledom Maybe Windows 11 is gonna be a Gentoo running KDE
Robots 
@lanodan @fribbledom would explain why they've been contributing to Linux
Also that's almost exactly what chrome os is lmao
This is Mur 
@fribbledom
Windows 11 do looks like they have ripped of OSX and all the Linux distros
Windows 11 do looks like they have ripped of OSX and all the Linux distros
DoeNietZoMoeilijk 🥔@mur2501 @fribbledom with a side of "let's make using our online account thingy mandatory!" that Facebook is increasingly fond of.
Petra@fribbledom Porting KDE to NT
Wolf480pl@fribbledom I consider MS copying KDE a win compared to the other way around.
@wolf480pl @fribbledom pleasant suprise
Mr. Teatime@wolf480pl
I'll reserve judgement until I've seen it in action.
Also: Right now I can tell people that KDE is way better for productivity and MS doesn't give a toss about that.
Just like SUA and now ssh integration took away the argument that I needed Linux on my workstation because connecting to Linux clusters from Windows was a pain.
Now they're trying to take away that argument, but ramping up the spying, which is much harder to argue against with some people ...
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Claudius (legacy account)@fribbledom it's just another riff on "easy to learn hard to master" or any of those things you'd print on a motivational poster.
Hans van ZijstIf that would be the only stuff they were stealing...
https://medium.com/@probonopd/microsoft-loves-linux-a-little-too-much-cff91023e4b8
https://medium.com/@probonopd/microsoft-loves-linux-a-little-too-much-cff91023e4b8
Huy Ngo@fribbledom people often says KDE provides a Windows-like experience.
Turns out it's Windows that provides KDE-like experience.
Maltimore@fribbledom
*chanting* lawsuit! lawsuit! Lawsuit! Lawsuiiiiit!!
*chanting* lawsuit! lawsuit! Lawsuit! Lawsuiiiiit!!
Mans R@fribbledom Aren't they both trying to be MacOS?
@fribbledom
I've always thought that KDE Plasma looks like the MS Windows user interface would if MS actually respected users.
I've always thought that KDE Plasma looks like the MS Windows user interface would if MS actually respected users.
StevenOnce I looked at the Windows 11 specs, a lot more made sense.
It's not a release targeting humans at all.
It's a flex move on the OEMs that have been sitting on hardware updates.
DirectX 12 as a baseline system requirement, etc.
Most people won't see the OS until they buy new hardware, which will be faster and with better graphics thanks to the new system requirements.
The advertising language is meaningless. It just needs to be easily visually distinguishable as Not 10.
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Mads Kjeldgaard@fribbledom also when they announced it with the new tiling window features: "nobody else has this". HAhaha. Except for the 50 different tiling window managers on linux since forever?
Karel P Kerezman@fribbledom "Embrace and extend" applies to marketing too, apparently.
Asimech@fribbledom That Win11 version has some strong "we want this but with plausible deniability" energy.
In that it says the same thing, but in a clunky harder to read way.
Kasra_mp ✅@fribbledom - MS got free/open source software concept mixed up with speech plagiarism. I'm not surprised 😂
@fribbledom - Also isn't it funny that KDE initially started to cater for Win users (look and feel wise) and now MS is copying from KDE.
Baggypants@fribbledom Maybe they should both work on slogans that aren't trite nonsense a 6 year old could come up with?
Tango, The Wild Dream@fribbledom what’s that line, “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”?
Chloev@fribbledom Ms has been copying kde's UI design for years since vista