Subj : Nifty desktop compari
To   : Ky Moffet
From : Barry Martin
Date : Tue Apr 01 2025 07:19:00


Hi Ky!

 >   KM> LOL. Or Amarok, or Clementine, or DeaDBeeF, or any of a thousand
 >   KM> other names that mean nothing. Admittedly "Banshee" does give a
 >   KM> hint. <g>
 > <Banshee) Not to me, <Looking up> Irish wailing spirit.  OK, that does
 > have a tie-in, though the definition I recall is more of a Japanese
 > warrior.  Sort of a wild version of a Samauri.
 KM> You are on the wrong side of the planet. It's from bain sidhe,
 KM> which is Irish.

And here I thought 'bain' was French for 'bath'. <g>  



 > When I first heard 'Clementine' thinking the little orange.  Then find
 > it's a music utility: ah! "Oooh mah darhling, ooo mah darhling, ooo mah
 > darhling Clementine!"  (I probably sing like one of your Banshees;
 > definitely can't carry a tune in  a bucket!)
 KM> We are very clever with our naming. <g>

It could be an interesting side-trip mental excursion to find the
derivation of some names!  



 >   KM> But a lot of the major ones work in Windows too. KDE routinely
 >   KM> builds a lot of projects cross-platform.
 > To me makes sense from a business standpoint: increases the market share.
 > ..That doesn't make make much sense from the consumer level (free!) but
 > the paid versions for business.
 KM> I don't know of any paid versions for business of any of the KDE
 KM> apps. A few are sold in the Microsoft store, but a LOT of free
 KM> software is on offer there for not-free prices, including some
 KM> KDE apps. You can do this, so long as source code remains
 KM> available.

Assuming right.  I remember back in the old days buying free software
on 5¬" floppies and paying -- $5?  The software was free and I was 
paying for the floppy and postage -- fair enough.  


 KM> However you can buy support from Canonical (Ubuntu) or Red Hat,
 KM> tho I don't think KDE is an officially supported desktop.
 KM> (However, it's overtaken Gnome in user stats, so this may
 KM> change.)

Also assuming right: know one gets a certain level of free support, 
which for most people (us individual users) is generally sufficient.  
Get into business usages and things can get complicated.



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