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[–] AmanitaCaesarea@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 week ago

Familiarity is very important for onboarding users. You'd be surprised how easy people give up because something is different. Kde Plasma is great, I run it myself, but information overload and flexibility is more likely to deter the average pc user than to win them over.