79 points

Now this is much better than getting ads in your Start Menu.

https://kde.org/donate/

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It’s open source. You could go in and just edit the code to show some ASCII porn if you want. Or just disable it.

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Is it bad that my first thought for “ASCII porn” is a pelvic thrusting stick figure with a boykisser meme head?

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2 points

Kinda

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i honestly don’t see the issue here. kde is free, and the popup really doesn’t seem all that annoying.

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Wow. Just when their excellent marketing tactics over the past few months had almost persuaded me that I might give KDE another try some day.

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I use it. I like it. But i admit its fucking bloated to hell.

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25 points

well thats unfortunate. Personally I’d rather click away one message per year while knowing I donate 40 euros every quarter than having the project die or degrade in the long run.

I think if you complain, you should contribute(either through effort or donation) to make such pop ups unnesseccary.

KDE Plasma albeit a bit bloated in default state is freaking amazing and getting better with every update.

Enjoy whatever DE you Like and complain as you like but just complaining is not going to fix Problems

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I’ve contributed to various projects when I had money, but this would probably make me less likely to do so if I were a user. It’s unquestionably true that some people “hate pop-ups and this is going to turn them off” and I am among them.

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I do suspect a small but vocal crowd of people will spread doom and gloom about it on social media anyway, of course.

I see they’re here already

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As long as the “No Thanks” button is a one and done go-away button, I think this is a decent idea!

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It’s once per year, easily dismissed, and can be permanently disabled. Seems entirely reasonable for a piece of free software that someone would use everyday

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