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We are talking about one single notification per year that serves as a notification for the hundreds of KDE programs that you normally install on a Plasma desktop.
So, yeah, it’s pretty fair. And it’s free software, so you can fork it and delete those lines of code anyway. It’s KDE so they’ll probably even let you disable it at some point in the settings.
How many packages make up what one would consider a bog-standard install of an OS that had all the basic features available to you?
300? 400? Enough for 1 popup every single day of the year; even if done yearly.
Thankfully, other developers aren’t this rude or full of themselves. Don’t get me wrong, they need funding, and I’m a donor - but advertising anything on the OS should be considered taboo. Just because Windows users tolerate it, doesn’t mean we should.
Now imagine every Linux application with a UI does this. Does it start looking like idiocracy to you?
We are talking about one single notification per year that serves as a notification for the hundreds of KDE programs that you normally install on a Plasma desktop.
So, yeah, it’s pretty fair. And it’s free software, so you can fork it and delete those lines of code anyway. It’s KDE so they’ll probably even let you disable it at some point in the settings.
How many packages make up what one would consider a bog-standard install of an OS that had all the basic features available to you?
300? 400? Enough for 1 popup every single day of the year; even if done yearly.
Thankfully, other developers aren’t this rude or full of themselves. Don’t get me wrong, they need funding, and I’m a donor - but advertising anything on the OS should be considered taboo. Just because Windows users tolerate it, doesn’t mean we should.