Big Tech’s disregard for privacy laws and individuals’ personal data has become a matter of national security. As news of willful mismanagement fill the headlines on an almost daily basis, the world is beginning to turn away from expensive and insecure spyware-riddled software imposed by the likes of Microsoft, Google, Meta, Apple, et al.

The investment will be used to strengthen the structural reliability and security of KDE’s core infrastructure, including Plasma, KDE Linux, and the frameworks underlying its communication services.

  • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 hours ago

    I suppose so, but xfce and cinnamon do excel in use cases where the graphical polish of gnome and kde are either unnecessary or are too resource intensive. For old devices or servers where you want a desktop, they both work really effectively while using pretty much the bare minimum.

    Like most things involving Linux, it’s more about options and flexibility than making a desktop that works in all use cases. There are actually quite a few things I like about gnome, and I wouldn’t mind using it, I just like being given a million options to tinker with lol.