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KDE has a much older and richer history than windows 7. It’s been trying to be a safe harbor for Windows users to land in Linux for a long time.

inigyou 3mo ago
What they really meant is it's like Windows if Windows didn't enshittify. I don't understand the plasma desktop though. Why can't I just drag a shortcut to the desktop.
- marcosdumay 3mo ago
  Plasma has very strong opinions about what the desktop is. So strong that it probably disagrees with every single person. The other side of the news is that the desktop abstraction has been made more and more useless on every OS for a couple of decades already. In any other OS your life will only improve if you abandon it too.
  - inigyou 3mo ago
    Even my phone has a desktop. It calls it a home screen, though.
    - marcosdumay 3mo ago
      The idea Plasma has of a desktop is very similar to the classical Android one, if that's ok for you.
      - LargoLasskhyfv 3mo ago
        Had classical Android the option to arrange virtual desktops in (practical) 3 by 3 to 5 by 5 grids, and mostly tile the apps fullscreen across that grid?
- basilikum 3mo ago
  Maybe because the start menu equivalent and the task bar are their own modules. They just come precondition, but you can use lots of alternatives. But I'm just guessing.
  - ValenaT18 3mo ago
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- noisem4ker 3mo ago
  > Why can't I just drag a shortcut to the desktop. You can...? I tried dragging from Dolphin, Kickoff and the Task Manager onto my desktop, and in all three cases it worked. Granted, there's a moment of confusion having to choose between copying or linking, as offered by the context menu that pops up, but...
  - LargoLasskhyfv 3mo ago
    That option existed in Windows, too. Only you needed to press CTRL, shift, or whatever to make it appear, instead of whatever was the default, which I've forgotten, meanwhile.
    - noisem4ker 2mo ago
      On Windows, by default, files are moved if dragged between folders on the same volume, and copied if dragged between volumes. You can force moving by pressing Shift, or copying by pressing Control as a modifier. You can make a context menu appear giving you an explicit choice by dragging with the right mouse button. On KDE Plasma, the default is to give you the context menu.

inigyou 3mo ago

What they really meant is it's like Windows if Windows didn't enshittify. I don't understand the plasma desktop though. Why can't I just drag a shortcut to the desktop.

marcosdumay 3mo ago
Plasma has very strong opinions about what the desktop is. So strong that it probably disagrees with every single person. The other side of the news is that the desktop abstraction has been made more and more useless on every OS for a couple of decades already. In any other OS your life will only improve if you abandon it too.
- inigyou 3mo ago
  Even my phone has a desktop. It calls it a home screen, though.
  - marcosdumay 3mo ago
    The idea Plasma has of a desktop is very similar to the classical Android one, if that's ok for you.
    - LargoLasskhyfv 3mo ago
      Had classical Android the option to arrange virtual desktops in (practical) 3 by 3 to 5 by 5 grids, and mostly tile the apps fullscreen across that grid?
basilikum 3mo ago
Maybe because the start menu equivalent and the task bar are their own modules. They just come precondition, but you can use lots of alternatives. But I'm just guessing.
- ValenaT18 3mo ago
  [dead]
noisem4ker 3mo ago
> Why can't I just drag a shortcut to the desktop. You can...? I tried dragging from Dolphin, Kickoff and the Task Manager onto my desktop, and in all three cases it worked. Granted, there's a moment of confusion having to choose between copying or linking, as offered by the context menu that pops up, but...
- LargoLasskhyfv 3mo ago
  That option existed in Windows, too. Only you needed to press CTRL, shift, or whatever to make it appear, instead of whatever was the default, which I've forgotten, meanwhile.
  - noisem4ker 2mo ago
    On Windows, by default, files are moved if dragged between folders on the same volume, and copied if dragged between volumes. You can force moving by pressing Shift, or copying by pressing Control as a modifier. You can make a context menu appear giving you an explicit choice by dragging with the right mouse button. On KDE Plasma, the default is to give you the context menu.