https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vyzla9mx4g>KDE: The Documentary tells the story of the pioneering open source community that gave computer users a free and open alternative to proprietary desktops like Windows.>The story starts in 1996, when Matthias Ettrich, a student at the University of Tübingen, posted to a Usenet group asking for programmers to help build a desktop for Linux. What followed became KDE, one of the largest free software communities in the world. KDE made Linux usable as a desktop for people who weren’t system administrators, giving it a complete, consistent graphical environment at a time when there was none.>The film covers the highs and lows of three decades of KDE: the Qt licensing fight and the rivalry with GNOME; the success of KHTML, the browser engine that became the basis of Apple’s WebKit and Google’s Chrome; and the contentious release of KDE 4 and the rebuild that followed.>Along the way, KDE invented much of how open source communities organise themselves. KDE e.V., the non-profit association that holds the project’s legal and financial responsibilities while leaving technical decisions to contributors, became a model for many other open source projects.>Today, KDE is the default desktop on major Linux distributions and on the Steam Deck, and the centre of a whole ecosystem of free and open software.>Above all, the film is about the people who built KDE, the friendships that formed, and why generations of developers have given their free time to it.
>>110068547>kde>free software
>>110068580>didn't watch the video as they address this
>>110068547still don't get why they keep claiming khtml is responsible for webkit and blink. At the time the html spec was tiny, css almost non-existent. Khtml was a fancy xml parser
>>110068547>try to play video>krashes
>>110068547>be me>gets notification about donating>whatever.png>donates the cost of a thinkpad>"i hope this helps them make it prettier">money goes to kde.in so indians can hold a conference there every year>nothing comes out of the conference ever>money goes to a movie studio to shoot a documentary about its history, that can fit in a single page>money goes to a furry to write documentation (kde has the worst documentation of all open source projects)>money goes to a blind retard to work on accessibility tools (xhe cant see and is anti-ai, last thing he did was make a desktop bouncy ball accessible, whatever that means)>money goes to designing a non binary dragon>still buggywhats the point of donating to "non profit foss projects?"
>>110068619not gnu, not free softwaresimple as
>>110068761>not even Stallman thinks that
>>110068692>8:24Taren't you supposed to be in the beach taking your morning dump sarjeet?
>>110068547>underdogs>our free DE can't compete with GNOME which is also free>Is it because of the khaotic konstant krashes? no it must be a conspiracy!
>>110068721thanks for sponsoring my trip suckaseriously though if you want your money to go towards a fix/feature, there's a bounty program in KDE which isn't a long term support but still something that ensures cash goes to the engineers.
>>110068547>underdogsSupposedly the most used DE when they want to btfo gnome or XFCESupposedly the underdogs when they are asking for money???
>>110068547that's a little too white for me
>>110069909On Arch at least, it has definitely long overtaken GNOME.
>>110068547>>Today, KDE is the default desktop on major Linux distributionslol>UbuntuGnome>FedoraGnome>DebianGnome>ArchNo default>openSUSEOkay, you got one - KDE
>>110068547why are there a bunch of old white dudes? Where are the magical girls we see all over the KDE masto-fediverse and discord? I wanna see majestic anime princesses in their programming socks firing energy beams from their palms at nazi bad guys. Not a bunch of old dudes that look like they would go to a Trump rally with Lunduke.
>>110070181Oh no no no, Plasmasisters - openSUSE doesn't have a single default desktop either!
>>110070007>Archlinux opt in analytics that require installing a whole package and systemd serviceYeah right, now use proper analytics https://github.com/ublue-os/countme/blob/main/growth_upstream_with_bazzite.svghttps://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=gnome-shell%2C+gnome-panel%2C+cinnamon%2C+xfce4-panel%2C+kde-plasma-desktop&show_vote=on&want_percent=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=2015-01-01&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1Let me guess, debian and fedora don't matter?
>>110068547>all White cis menno wonder GNOME is the approved IBM choice
>>110070181Neither Fedora nor OpenSUSE have a default desktop anymore. They both have KDE and GNOME on equal footing.
>>110068547>the K in KDE stands for Krauts Ah, no wonder it krashes, it's totally over engineered
>>110070989ackkk https://akselmo.dev/about/
>>110071017it's Fedora *workstation* (aka flagship) and Fedora *kde plasma edition* (an edition)
>>110070181CachyOS is currently the most popular distro and it's KDE by default
>>110071074that's just your average finnish guy
