Why wait for Microsoft to catch up with what we've been doing for decades?
Why wait for Microsoft to catch up with what we've been doing for decades?
Why wait for Microsoft to catch up with what we've been doing for decades?
Get Plasma, a modern, fully functional, clean, privacy-respecting, non-intrusive operating system now, regardless from where you live and ditch Windows for good.
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@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
Plasma=operating system ???!!!???🤔
@SanchoPanza @kde @kde@lemmy.kde.social Sure it's not a full operating system but Plasma and the KDE Frameworks and apps are a large portion of the user space, has a lot of hardware integration and is that the user interact with not with the kernel directly.
@carlschwan @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
So if we pull out the kernel/Linux, we can run hardware and applications with Plasma/KDE?
@SanchoPanza @carlschwan @kde@lemmy.kde.social
Yes. Plasma is not dependent exclusively on the Linux Kernel. The fact is it also works on FreeBSD:
https://euroquis.nl//kde/2021/04/30/wayland.html
And there is no Linux Kernel there.
@kde@floss.social @carlschwan @kde@lemmy.kde.social
So it's not an operating system, it's a desktop. It can also run on Windows. It's not an operating system.
@SanchoPanza @kde @kde@lemmy.kde.social Also it's way easier to communicate to non Linux users that Plasma is an operating system than a desktop environnement has Windows and macOS have no concept of desktop environnement.
Or do you call macOS aqua?
@carlschwan @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
Wouldn't it be more accurate to describe KDE neon or another GNU/Linux distribution?
Can you define "operating system" in common, non-technical English, as to an end user?