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Akademy 2020 talk: Visions of the Future
This year I gave a talk at Akademy about my vision for how to get KDE’s software onto more hardware, and therefore more easily into the hands of our users. If you’re interested, here’s a recording! my...
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Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga: 6 month impressions
I’ve now had my Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga laptop for about 6 months, so I thought I’d provide a quick update about how it’s going to use this laptop every day with openSUSE Tumbleweed running KDE...
View Article1 year update on the ThinkPad X1 Yoga laptop
Last year I replaced my old laptop with a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga, and I wrote a preliminary review of it. This laptop is my only computer, used for both work and play. I’ve had it for a year, gotten...
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This week in KDE: KDE-powered Steam Deck revealed!
Big big news today: Valve has announced the Steam Deck–a handheld gaming device running KDE Plasma under the hood! This is a big deal, folks. By using a Linux-based OS, Valve is hugely improving the...
View ArticleWhy pre-installation is so important
Linus Sebastian of Linus Tech Tips recently did a long-form chat about the Steam Deck and Linux in general. A major complaint was that Linux is too hard to install, and this gets to the heart of why I...
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What a great laptop needs
This post is at least partially aimed at any hardware vendors who may be reading along. If you’re here for just the KDE-specific stuff, feel free to skip this post. I’m picky about laptops, since I...
View ArticleWhat desktop Linux needs to succeed in the mainstream
You might be aware of the recent Linus Tech Tips videos about switching to Linux, including one with some complaints about KDE software. For those of you who are following along, I want to let you...
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Akademy 2022 talk: Konquering the World – Are We There Yet?
Two weeks ago I attended Akademy in Barcelona, KDE’s annual conference. Let me tell you, it was great to finally, finally, finally see people in person again! It was so nice to meet up with old...
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Plasma Products
In the open-source world, we’re quite familiar with projects. Write some code to solve a problem, make sure it works for you, maybe put it in a Git repo, and voila! A project is mostly personal; you...
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KDE developer interviews from Augsburg, Germany
The folks at Tuxedo Computers have published a video of short interviews with some of the participants of the Plasma sprint from earlier this month, so you can see that we were actually there. Check...
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