 Do you work at Microsoft* but also miss a powerful terminal emulator? New in KDE Gear ⚙️ 23.04: Konsole now works on Windows too! More at: https://kde.org/announcements/gear/23.04.0/ --- * We couldn't think of another reason of why you would still be using Windows over Plasma 🤷 23 comments
 @Ariane@m.noxie.ch @kde@floss.social  🤔 So, the funny joke needed a straw man immolation response? There are real structural, social and economic issues which need serious discussion and change within Free Software. But the thing you gave a free pass on, buying random computers and installing Linux, is an actual thing we have to stop doing. Hackentux machines are not normal, unless you know what you're doing. Buy a steam deck. A gaming computer made with Linux. Then the gaming straw man disappears too.  @kde "We couldn't think of another reason of why you would still be using Windows over Plasma 🤷" I'm currently using KDE plasma on Fedora and Kubuntu on my laptop but my other PC is BIOS locked and since it has the better CPU it's what I'm daily driving   @kde Console on Windows sounds great. PS, I enjoyed your Windows joke. (So many people didn't seem to get it... but I guess being forced to use Windows anywhere is no joke...)  @kde currently beating myself up over not being able to apply to a job where I'd be stuck with microsoft stuff. Would love Konsole there tho, at least something familiar... @kde having way too many desktops installed on one distro and using Konsole on budgie totally doesn't feel wrong at all |
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@kde for the windows stuff, there are many reasons why linux isn't catching up. Firstly ease of use. If we take a simple user story of a gamer : Let's get a computer, and play games.
buy a prebuilt at a random store.
let's skip the unfair installation/coming with windows part.
On windows : open edge -> seampowered.com -> download -> install -> install game -> play
on linux (let's assume debian based) : firefox -> steampowered.com -> download -> intall -> install game -> don't see all the game library -> understanding why that happens -> find the setting and enable it -> install game -> game won't launch -> find out why -> game requires proton GE -> firgure out what it is -> download -> unzip in compatibilitytools.d -> restart steam and change the proton version -> launch -> doesn't launch -> oh that game doesn't work anymore because of anticheat -> can't play that game.
I took a bad example, and it many cases it would be very easy. But in any case the fact Linux is not just a simple monolithic thing (different package managers, different DEs, different schedulers, different many things) makes any googling non trivial.
And that example shows one of MANY edge cases which a regular user will encounter on many occasion. Windows has the advantage of being uniform.
@kde for the windows stuff, there are many reasons why linux isn't catching up. Firstly ease of use. If we take a simple user story of a gamer : Let's get a computer, and play games.
buy a prebuilt at a random store.
let's skip the unfair installation/coming with windows part.
On windows : open edge -> seampowered.com -> download -> install -> install game -> play