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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Asking for donations in Plasma (pointieststick.com)

submitted 2 years ago by that_leaflet@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 40 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

No problem... Once a year is fine. It's a non-profit based in Germany...

Thunderbird shows it once at every startup...

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

WinRaR has begged me for money for years

[–] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why use winrar when 7zip and peazip are right there?

[–] skaffi@infosec.pub 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

While I was still on Windows, the killer feature that kept WinRar installed, instead of only using 7zip, was the simple fact that its file explorer supported hotkeys like Ctrl+C, and that you could seamlessly copy files to and from Windows' file explorer.

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 years ago

I'm pretty sure PeaZip supports these as well

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 2 years ago

PeaZip is nice. I don't use 7zip because it looks and feels ancient. Both are open source and better than WinRAR though.

[–] 42yeah@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Well, you do in theory need a license to use winrar for more than 30 days

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

Thunderbird shows it for a at every startup

Honestly didn't realise till you pointed that out. I'm so used to seeing it that it doesn't register to me what it's saying anymore. Probably for the best that KDE only does it once a year; if it were daily I'm sure it wouldn't even register to people that it's asking for donations.

[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago

Thunderbird was dead until it added a donations banner then used the donations to hire some programmers.