Well, for me, each virtual desktop is dedicated to a different ongoing project. When I want to switch from one project to another, I just switch virtual desktops. Each project can have all kinds of windows open on multiple monitors, and none of them are relevant to the other projects.

DM should consider being a Halfling.

For a Halfling size queen, the world is your oyster!

It’s not the AI we need to be scared of, it’s the data.

That said, imagine an actual AGI (ASI) AI gets developed and (of course) escapes to the internet because the idiots who built it gave it unrestricted internet access.

If such an AI wanted to take control of the world in order to further whatever goals it has, all this collected information will be an incredible treasure trove for it. Like you said, many people can be manipulated an controlled with threats of blackmail. The few who can’t can then be more directly threatened by those acting under blackmail threats.

Set a window rule to have those particular windows be on all desktops. Then the others can switch while those stay the same.

it is innovative

Nah, it’s just weird. And doing a lot of things to be different for the sake of being different. Which steepens the learning curve for newbies. (And, worse, may make newbies think all Linux is weird and difficult to learn.)

Just because it’s different doesn’t mean it’s better.

newby friendly (Windows and Mac are both more complex)

‘Simplicity’ does not necessarily mean it’s user friendly. Especially when you’re telling them to go download and install more things just so their desktop can do things that EVERY other desktop in the entire world does. I really really wish this paradigm of “removing options = user friendly” would just die already.

(It’s not really user friendly, it’s developer-friendly. Because there’s less for them to build and maintain.)

It has efficient keyboard navigation by default

Every DE does this. Name a single Linux DE that doesn’t have efficient keyboard navigation.

And it has pleasant, modern UI by default.

It has a blobby, plastic-looking, overstyled UI by default. But that’s just a matter of taste.

(And if you don’t like their default UI … well, you’re screwed, because they really don’t want you to change it.)

I’ll make a deal:

You stop including Gnome as the default DE on mainstream, newbie-friendly distros, and I’ll stop talking shit about it.

Because it’s the bully stick he gets to hit other countries with to get his way … or just to retaliate against those who offend him.

Also because the on-again off-again arbitrary and unpredictable tariffs are a great opportunity for insider trading for those in his inner circle who are given advanced notice of his capricious changes.

Also because doing random bullshit with tariffs occupies the news cycle and helps distract from a lot of the other bullshit he’s doing or has done in the past.

Google: “Update to our new AI slop harvester now. We know where you live.”

He can be associated with both…

Which features are unnecessary?

Well, depends how you’re using it. In my case, for example, I don’t have a printer, so I could turn off the entire print manager system/service and save a bit of unnecessary RAM. And if you’re trying to be economical about RAM usage, things like fancy window decorations, window animations, and other purely aesthetic stuff like that can of course go. But, really, what features are necessary versus unnecessary will depend on you and what you’re using your computer for.

Or did you just mean what features does KDE have?

In that case, the answer is basically, all the features. Like, KDE is the quintessential ‘everything and the kitchen sink’ desktop. You name it, they have it … or it can quickly and easily be added. Any feature you can think of from any other OS or desktop, chances are KDE already has it or at least can do it with just a little tweaking.

For an example, I think my favorite feature would be the ability to set custom window rules for each application or even each sub-window within an application. Setting rules that dictate the size and placement of that app’s windows, their transparency, which virtual desktop they open in, whether they show up in the taskbar or not, whether other windows can cover them up or not, etc. I use those rules extensively in my workflow to make sure each app always goes exactly where I want it on my multiple monitors, stays there, and behaves just how I want it to. (For example, I want my system monitor to be 80% translucent in a certain corner of the screen. I want my timer app to always stay on top, and in a particular location on a particular screen, I want my time tracking spreadsheet open on all desktops, but always in the background so it never covers any other window, and not cluttering up the taskbar. I want the terminal to always open maximized on my left monitor, and for it to be 100% visible when active, but 80% translucent when not active. With window rules, I can make all of that happen.)

Nowhere in the article it says Epstein was the only one.

You expect me to read articles?!?!? Preposterous!

I’m just going off of the title, where it says:

Jeffrey Epstein Was Vladimir Putin’s Wealth Manager

Not ‘one of Putin’s wealth managers’.

So … yeah. I blame the poorly worded title. No ragrets.

Like most horrible things in the world, it’s ultimately the fault of the British.

Only … fatter, older, and stupider.

The others – including two of his appointees, Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch – drew his derision.

Can’t wait for his posts asking who put those people on the Supreme Court and saying what a bad and stupid person it must have been who did that.

I was just distracted by the incestuous kissing.

Should have used the one where he had Leia prisoner on a chain. You know, because of the content of the other files…

Dank memes are nice and cheap, and they don’t upset the donor class, who understands that it’s all kayfabe.

A very good question.

If, somehow, this actually becomes a real lawsuit, and somehow actually results in a real judgement, and somehow the regime actually pays the judgement rather than just ignoring it … watch this money just end up in the state’s budget, with none of it going to the people who were actually illegally overcharged for everything. (And then the state spends most of it on buying fancy new guns and surveillance tech for the state police. Chrome-plated missile launchers for the state troopers!)

I kind of doubt this, actually.

I don’t think Putin is the type to trust anybody else with his wealth. Not all of it, anyway, or even most of it.

Maybe I’d believe Epstein was a wealth manager for Putin, not the wealth manager. Just one of the many pies Putin has his fingers in.

Why promise to release files? Just release them if you’ve got 'em!

This is the same MFer who said he could declassify files with his mind, by the way.