I’ll make a deal:

You stop including Gnome as the default DE on mainstream, newbie-friendly distros, and I’ll stop talking shit about it.

Because it’s the bully stick he gets to hit other countries with to get his way … or just to retaliate against those who offend him.

Also because the on-again off-again arbitrary and unpredictable tariffs are a great opportunity for insider trading for those in his inner circle who are given advanced notice of his capricious changes.

Also because doing random bullshit with tariffs occupies the news cycle and helps distract from a lot of the other bullshit he’s doing or has done in the past.

He can be associated with both…

Which features are unnecessary?

Well, depends how you’re using it. In my case, for example, I don’t have a printer, so I could turn off the entire print manager system/service and save a bit of unnecessary RAM. And if you’re trying to be economical about RAM usage, things like fancy window decorations, window animations, and other purely aesthetic stuff like that can of course go. But, really, what features are necessary versus unnecessary will depend on you and what you’re using your computer for.

Or did you just mean what features does KDE have?

In that case, the answer is basically, all the features. Like, KDE is the quintessential ‘everything and the kitchen sink’ desktop. You name it, they have it … or it can quickly and easily be added. Any feature you can think of from any other OS or desktop, chances are KDE already has it or at least can do it with just a little tweaking.

For an example, I think my favorite feature would be the ability to set custom window rules for each application or even each sub-window within an application. Setting rules that dictate the size and placement of that app’s windows, their transparency, which virtual desktop they open in, whether they show up in the taskbar or not, whether other windows can cover them up or not, etc. I use those rules extensively in my workflow to make sure each app always goes exactly where I want it on my multiple monitors, stays there, and behaves just how I want it to. (For example, I want my system monitor to be 80% translucent in a certain corner of the screen. I want my timer app to always stay on top, and in a particular location on a particular screen, I want my time tracking spreadsheet open on all desktops, but always in the background so it never covers any other window, and not cluttering up the taskbar. I want the terminal to always open maximized on my left monitor, and for it to be 100% visible when active, but 80% translucent when not active. With window rules, I can make all of that happen.)

Nowhere in the article it says Epstein was the only one.

You expect me to read articles?!?!? Preposterous!

I’m just going off of the title, where it says:

Jeffrey Epstein Was Vladimir Putin’s Wealth Manager

Not ‘one of Putin’s wealth managers’.

So … yeah. I blame the poorly worded title. No ragrets.

Like most horrible things in the world, it’s ultimately the fault of the British.

Only … fatter, older, and stupider.

I was just distracted by the incestuous kissing.

Should have used the one where he had Leia prisoner on a chain. You know, because of the content of the other files…

Dank memes are nice and cheap, and they don’t upset the donor class, who understands that it’s all kayfabe.

A very good question.

If, somehow, this actually becomes a real lawsuit, and somehow actually results in a real judgement, and somehow the regime actually pays the judgement rather than just ignoring it … watch this money just end up in the state’s budget, with none of it going to the people who were actually illegally overcharged for everything. (And then the state spends most of it on buying fancy new guns and surveillance tech for the state police. Chrome-plated missile launchers for the state troopers!)

I kind of doubt this, actually.

I don’t think Putin is the type to trust anybody else with his wealth. Not all of it, anyway, or even most of it.

Maybe I’d believe Epstein was a wealth manager for Putin, not the wealth manager. Just one of the many pies Putin has his fingers in.

Why promise to release files? Just release them if you’ve got 'em!

This is the same MFer who said he could declassify files with his mind, by the way.

Why? Just… why?

Any time you ask the Gnome devs this, you can expect the answer to be “elegance”. And then they block you.

Making KDE look like a Mac is an entire genre of easily downloaded and installed themes:

https://store.kde.org/p/1400409

https://store.kde.org/p/1305006

https://store.kde.org/p/1398837

https://store.kde.org/p/2229017/

Crimping a push fit terminal of some sort on the end would make a handy static wrist strap hookup too I’d imagine.

Plus, you’d get to see the horrified looks on your friend’s faces when they see you plugging your wrist strap into a wall outlet!

For the sake of completeness I assume I plug in the plug and it’s just using the house’s earth?

Yes! Heh, I guess I forgot that part. I should add it in, just in case.

What do you even do with independent virtual desktops per monitor?

I’ve got 8 virtual desktops and 6 monitors, but I want the content of all 6 monitors to change when I switch virtual desktops. Having to do each monitor independently sounds like a huge pain.

(And, of course, there are a couple things I want on every virtual desktop. But it’s easy to set certain windows to be on all desktops.)

What shortcuts does Windows have that KDE doesn’t?

And KDE can be even more efficient if you go into the settings and tweak things a bit, turning off some unnecessary features that are on by default.