[kde] [image] KDE at 30 KDE is turning 30 this year! Three decades of passionate community effort against all odds; delivering control, privacy, and freedom to our users; and tons and tons of software.

I started using Linux distros as my main OS near the end of 2004. That would most likely be KDE’s K Desktop Environment 3.3. [KDE_3-3] At the time, I was always distro-hopping and moving between Gnome and KDE. But I always felt much more at home with KDE. And that continues today as I’ve been usi…

The opposite here, I always disliked KDE, I mean look at the above screenshot, ugly as hell. And I still have a problem with KDE.

KDE started to look “more modern” by version 4. That’s when I became hooked on KDE. [KDE_4]

I always preferred KDE/Plasma, but whenever I tried it, it would break, crash, something would fail, or just not work (for my use case). That’s why, after trying KDE/Plasma once again, I always used to return to XFCE (Xubuntu), which I did not like the look of, but which was very stable. From the …

I’ve started with Gnome 2 (my favorite). Migrated to Cinnamon during the Gnome 3 and Unity fiasco. Migrated to kde 5 in 2020. Kde 6 is my new favorite because of these two features adaptive icons day/night switcher

This news makes me feel so old :open_mouth: I just looked that up some days ago: my first distro was SuSE 6.1, I think… with KDE 1.1… I switched back to Windows fast (me young then, needed games!), but it was the start of a long journey on and off Linux for years. Also, my dad started selling PCs w…

[image] Lemon: I always disliked KDE, I mean look at the above screenshot, ugly as hell. For that time it was normal. Looks the same as windows 95/98/2000. Don’t forget that people did this voluntarily. Not paid like Microsoft for sample.

You mentioning CD ROM made me remember that I first got in contact with Linux when a friend brought a CD ROM with Ubuntu 6.6 on it, which was a freebie that came with a pc magazine we read in those days. In those days I liked new things, so I tried it out the same day as I remember.

Yer I remember getting a disk out of a book in the local library about linux with fedora on it and getting a ubuntu disk mailed out to me about 15+ years ago

KDE Turns 30 In October, 2026

Desktop Environments Plasma

smokey April 16, 2026, 8:03am 16

I had it installed a while back, not bad, but not for me