KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser

Posted by jrepinc 10/14/2025

KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser(kde.org)

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WhereIsTheTruth 10/14/2025|

Supporting it is important so we have an alternative to GNOME/GTK

GNOME ruined my Linux experience, I'm no fan of the tablet/smartphone UX spreading to desktop

Aerbil313 10/14/2025||

After years of distro hopping I landed on KDE NixOS and stuck with it ever since. Stable, featureful, intuitive experience.

KDE is visibly taking off.

akimbostrawman 10/14/2025||

Amazing project my only gripes about KDE is that while the customization is great it can feel overwhelming and opaque. For example multiple different ways to get transparency (Kvantum & qt6ct) but nothing built in or large amount of different but seemingly connected config files with confusing syntax in .config

I hope the work on union will help fix some of that

yjftsjthsd-h 10/14/2025|

Yes, if you choose to go off the happy path into the weeds, then you will be off the happy path in the weeds. The only desktop environments where that isn't true are the ones that forbid customization.

ktosobcy 10/14/2025||

Donating montly and so happy to do it! <3

Am4TIfIsER0ppos 10/14/2025||

How much do I have to pay to get ISO dates?

yjftsjthsd-h 10/14/2025||

Nothing? I've got a date format option for ISO date right now?

Am4TIfIsER0ppos 10/15/2025||

Where the fuck is that? Why can;t it just obey my locale which already produces the right format.

yjftsjthsd-h 10/16/2025||

Right click on clock > "Configure Digital Clock..." > "Date Format:" > "ISO date"

Am4TIfIsER0ppos 10/20/2025||

Oh wow you can get the ISO date in one little corner of the screen but everywhere else a date is shown will still be mixed endian US.

Aldipower 10/15/2025||

You need to upgrade to KDE 11. KDE 10 reached end-of-life.

rini17 10/14/2025||

KDE user since version 2. Fell in love with KMail. Even upgraded my RAM from 16 to 48MB to run it smoothly lol.

Stopped used it at version 4, the new kdepim was atrocious. But now it's usable again. Probably my largest peeve is how there's advanced desktop search/semantic engine but it has no own interface as if the devs were ashamed of it, search results only appear when you type something in menu. And if you google nepomuk/baloo most ppl just ask how to turn it off.

slipperybeluga 10/14/2025||

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Antifa4HN 10/14/2025||

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janwl 10/14/2025|

>Case in point: Microsoft is stopping free support for Windows 10 on hundreds of millions of computers this very week. Many of these old yet perfectly usable devices will not be able to upgrade because of spurious hardware requirements. Microsoft’s solution? “Throw away your computer and pollute the planet because we want to make even more money.”

Windows 10 was released in 2015. Does KDE still support whatever version of KDE was released in 2015?

emilsedgh 10/14/2025||

No but upgrading KDE is free. It also doesn't force new hardware requirements.

OsrsNeedsf2P 10/14/2025|||

KDE 5 was released in 2015 and still supported on Arch Linux. Even KDE 3, released in, 2002 is still supported and installable: https://www.trinitydesktop.org/

sombragris 10/14/2025||

Also supported in Slackware 15.0 (stable) and Slackware -current, where it is still the default desktop environment and the planned desktop for the upcoming 15.1 release.

(I'm using Plasma 6.5 beta now btw but the official support still is on 5.x.)

cmeacham98 10/14/2025|||

You're misunderstanding - the point is that current (supported) versions of KDE support hardware manufactured in 2015, and current (supproted) versions of Windows will stop doing that very soon.

cgh 10/14/2025|||

The point is that KDE from 2015 will still run on today’s hardware.

janwl 10/14/2025||

So will Windows 10, and it will receive as much support as a KDE version from 2015.

yjftsjthsd-h 10/14/2025|||

It isn't competing with an old KDE, it's competing with the current version of KDE that still works on that hardware.

space_ghost 10/14/2025||

Counterpoint: any modern linux distro will run fine on your 10yo computer.