Another thumbs up for Krita. My sister is graphical designer and that is what she uses now after switching to Kubuntu about a year ago.

Happy birthday and thanks to all the KDE hackers for the gift of the best desktop environment on GNU/Linux and on computers in general. Light years ahead of anything else. Also so many very nice applications. Often winder how you can even manage to do it all.

Just installed on Gentoo and it is working great so far

Great news, really missed Amarok. Although Strawberry also does a very nice job. Looking forward to future development for Amarok.

Does not make it less of a crime and big deal if more evil corporations do it. If anything it makes it even more of a big deal and more concerning.

Thats a separate topic. The issue is that people claim that Microsoft does not respect privacy, while [insert their favorite electronic brand here] does.

We just need to start using what libre and opensource software is already available. That is what every public institutions should use if they are serious about privacy and sovereignty

On the contrary, we need to fund their improvement, and use them once they are ready

There is no such thing as funding and wait for it to be ready.

I once worked for a company that was building among other things a videoconference app. The quality of the product only really started to increase when employees were sent home during covid and they started using their own tool.

> and use them once they are ready

There's always some tiny little thing which is missing for someone. If you demand 100% completion before you can switch, you will never switch.

> we need to fund their improvement, and use them once they are ready

That would mean funding for a long time, without getting any tangible results (since you refuse to use it until it's "ready") until the very end. The end result would be that the funding is abandoned after a while, and you never switch.

A friend of mine has a Tuxedo Pulse 14 (if I remember correctly) and he is using openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma on it and he sounds very happy about it.

And it is far worse today. Microsoft has turned it into bloated spyware sometimes even showing ads. Not to mention all the "AI" junk they are trying to pack into it. The sooner we get rid of Windows the better. Thankfuly Steam Deck is showing people that even gaming is now just fine on GNU/Linux.

Same here 2nd gen KDE Slimbook, working flawlessly

Yeah similar experience here, At work we are forced to use a distro with GNOME (well at least it is GNU/Linux and not that Microsoft bloated spyware) and yeah I have plenty of crashes in GNOME. No crashes at home with KDE Plasma on openSUSE Tumbleweed. It has been rock stable.