• Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Not gonna lie, took me a moment of thinking and waiting for a search engine to load before I realized Kool Desktop Environment is just KDE…

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        9 months ago

        While looking it up, I’m pretty sure I read that Kool Desktop Environment was changed to K Desktop Environment. Either way, it’s absolutely Konfusing regardless of how you slice it.

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          9 months ago

          Konfusing? Everything is krystal klear in KDE, or you kan make it opaque, too, as all konfigurations are exposed for maximum kustomization

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          9 months ago

          Originally, it had no meaning. It was just the letter K. There are attempts to rewrite history, give it some purpose, but no.

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        9 months ago

        It does now and has for years, but at first they didn’t realise how stupid Kool Desktop Environment sounded

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            9 months ago

            Not sure if this is directly aimed at us but, I don’t know much about different desktop environments (with this being the maybe 2nd or 3rd one I’ve used), but I l just like plasma because it looks good without much tweaking. I’m still learning Linux, so I just want something that looks good out of the box.

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              @AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee

              I don’t care much for looks. I want something that works good. Every time I’ve tried KDE in the past decade there have been major bugs that crashed things. I use mostly XFCE and OpenBox (both ugly) and the bugs are so infrequent that I can’t even remember the last one encountered. I’m so busy getting things done I don’t notice how ugly the desktop environment looks.