Comments on: KDE Encourages Windows 10 Users to Switch to Linux

By: Dirk Uys

Dirk Uys — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 08:42:41 +0000

Short version: Which distro/DE is most likely to work ‘out of the box (download/installation/etc)’? Long version: You mention considering an article ‘to clear things up’. Please include a good number of the potential obstacles to installing Linux and getting it running. I am a Windows user hoping to switch to Linux and am not interested in having the ‘most Windows-like’ DE nor ease of use or any such. I want it to work for basic functions; surfing, on-line banking, email, Libre Office, even if clunky. Reason for asking: The other day I found a post and thread about getting Linux to work on the same model of laptop (14-year old HP running Windows 10 smoothly) that I have, and eventually one commentator told the OP that maybe Linux was just not for him (the OP, that is). Please and thanks.

By: Gérard

Gérard — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 13:11:15 +0000

The article ( https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/06/04/kdes-overdramatic-campaign-urges-windows-10-users-to-get-linux-over-windows-11/ ) also denounces
“Windows 10-powered PCs a ‘toast’ and claims Microsoft wants to turn the OS into a ‘junk’.”
While this way of wording things may be excessive and exaggerated, in reality, the end-of-support, end-of-life of Windows operating system leads to hundreds of millions of PCs sent to landfills and including illegal landfills. Mostly because such Windows PC owners do not see a suitable and affordable alternative. A convincing demonstration of this is what happened to 500 milions of PCs with Windows XP in 2014:
(french) https://www.amisdelaterre.org/windows-programme-l-obsolescence-de-500-millions-de-pc-dans-le-monde-et-un/
(french) https://reporterre.net/Microsoft-envoie-500-millions-d

By: Gérard

Gérard — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 12:45:47 +0000

The article ( https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/06/04/kdes-overdramatic-campaign-urges-windows-10-users-to-get-linux-over-windows-11/ ) is also exaggerating and sometimes plain false.

– “Windows 10 still works. Only security updates stop.” Realistically speaking, how can a PC connected to the internet actually work as expected when there are so many scams, viruses, worms and security flaws found almost every day? Realistically speaking, how can anyone rely on a computer that no longer receive regular security updates?

– “Ending support after 10 years is standard industry practice.” No it is not. It is a business model, driven by profit.

– “Some ads or ‘suggestions’ exist (…)” Advertisement has become overwhelming and intrusive on the web and in the real world. If a new PC buyer pays Microsoft $200 or $300 for a pre-installed Windows – without even knowing that the price of Windows was included in his purchase – , then why should (s)he have to get ads?
“(…) but can be turned off easily.” Is this really true? Perfectly and completely true? Can you can turn off ads coming from the Windows operating system?

– “Many older PCs (…) can use workarounds.” The article itself states that such older PC owners would have to pay $ for extended security updates for Windows 10.

– “Windows has telemetry controls.” According to a majority of Windows reviewers (Chris Titus, Tom Murosky,”Egee”, etc), Windows has *_excessive_* telemetry controls. Linux has nothing comparable.

By: FreePerson

FreePerson — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 22:14:29 +0000

In reply to vrighter. Oh, me too!

By: FreePerson

FreePerson — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 22:12:45 +0000

OK, I must admit that a big part of that article (this: https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/06/04/kdes-overdramatic-campaign-urges-windows-10-users-to-get-linux-over-windows-11/) is true. However, there is stated that KDE said: “Linux has no issues”. However, I didn’t see this anywhere. Am I blind, or is the author of the article exaggerating, just as it accused KDE that it did? 🤔

By: Sum Yung Gai

Sum Yung Gai — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 14:01:52 +0000

I’ve been helping free people from Microsoft for the last 20+ years, usually using either KDE or LXDE/LXqt because they have seemed the most familiar to the MS Windows users that I’ve run into. So far, it’s worked. Thus, it seemed natural to also volunteer over at the endof10.org site. They told me nope, you’ve got to be part of an existing organization like having a company or similar. So, it seems they’re really just promoting companies; maybe that’s the German/European cultural model, I don’t know. It’s unfortunate, though; while their stated goal is noble, their implementation is thus somewhat flawed.

By: vrighter

vrighter — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 11:35:38 +0000

In reply to Jorge. If it could run windows 10, it will still practically fly with kde plasma.

By: Gérard

Gérard — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 10:01:48 +0000

Over at “KDE for Windows 10 Exiles” webpage, it is written
– “Plasma comes free of licensing costs
It doesn’t matter if you are installing Plasma on one computer or fifty—no-one is going to bill you for it.”
but this way of writing things is somewhat misleading. KDE is a desktop environment. They should have first and foremost written that *Linux is free of of licensing costs*.
– The way they write/present KDE implicitly suggests that KDE is a suitable replacement, a suitable substitution to Windows 10… when we all know that Linux is regardless of the desktop environment.

By: Jorge

Jorge — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 20:46:35 +0000

I strongly agree with Miroj, in the sense that Cinamon is by far a better option over KDE due to the lower consumption of resources.

By: Miroj

Miroj — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 17:12:03 +0000

I do have two comments:

1. Microsoft was/is strongly pushing to upgrade to Windows 11, which is natural upgrade for supported hardware, however the users of PCs unsupported by Windows 11 are strongly discouraged to go that direction. Even the workarounds are canceled in the latest Windows 11 install ISO images.

2. I would challenge the KDE as the only most natural fit for Windows coming users, I would seriously consider the Cinnamon desktop environment as alternative for Windows coming users.