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KDE is now my favorite desktop

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892 points todsacerdoti | 3 comments | 18 Sep 25 12:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.433s | source
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whafro ◴[18 Sep 25 13:40 UTC] No.45289578[source]▶
Haven't been a Linux daily driver in years, but I love that KDE continues to have such an impact.

Reminder that its built-in browser Konqueror debuted the KHTML rendering engine circa ~1999, which was then forked to become WebKit, and now (including all subsequent forks) powers something approaching 90% of web views globally. Pretty amazing!

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1. MarsIronPI ◴[18 Sep 25 15:00 UTC] No.45290550[source]▶
Out of curiosity, what prevents you from or motivates you not to use Linux as a daily driver?
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2. sedatk ◴[19 Sep 25 09:51 UTC] No.45299801[source]▶
Likely using a Mac.
3. BrandoElFollito ◴[19 Sep 25 20:31 UTC] No.45306189[source]▶
Not OP but Windows 11 "just works" compared with Linux on a laptop.

For context, I've been using Linux since 1994, including some tiny contribution to the then kernel. I also administered tons of Linux boxes professionally and personally.

With this said, I am trying every 15 months or so to start Ubuntu on my laptop and see how I could live with it in my world of Outlook, zScaler and Zoom. So far I cannot and I would love to be proven wrong.