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		wkat4242 on Feb 29, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6 > which is a shame, since they iirc slaughtered the perfectly good GNOME 2.x UI to cater to those devices speifically around a decade ago - and for what? If this is all that's there to reap, it's been a bad trade-off. It was the fad of that time, when Microsoft also introduced Windows 8 and the "Modern UI" Metro. But at least they came to their senses, also because no devs bothered to adopt it :) and they still didn't manage to sell any Windows tablets.

fullstop on Feb 29, 2024 | [–]

> they still didn't manage to sell any Windows tablets.

That was such a branding problem for Microsoft. Microsoft supplied so many Surface tablets to the NFL and the commentators kept calling them iPads.

ambichook on March 1, 2024 | [–]

they did to schools, i was cursed with an 8.1 acer windows tablet until they finally allowed a BYO program

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