At Akademy 2025 this year, I had the privilege of giving a talk about a big picture topic close to my heart, and you can watch it here: For those who prefer reading over watching and listening, I’ll give a quick summary: I believe that the challenges facing the world today present an opportunity for … Continue reading Talk at Akademy 2025 — minding the big picture: opportunity from chaos →...
At Akademy 2025 this year, I had the privilege of giving a talk about a big picture topic close to my heart, and you can watch it here:
For those who prefer reading over watching and listening, I’ll give a quick summary:
I believe that the challenges facing the world today present an opportunity for KDE to grow in importance and reach due to a variety of favorable trends embedded in the chaos and conflict, including:
- Increasing skepticism of traditional proprietary American big tech
- Increasing EU public funding opportunities
- Windows 11 sucking and losing its edge for gaming
- *Postscript: MacOS Tahoe stumbling and being publicly mocked as well
But this is a window of opportunity that I think will close. So I encouraged everyone to think about how we can make KDE software ready for adoption from the following perspectives:
- Being known about in the first place
- Looking good enough to be taken seriously
- Being easy to download or otherwise acquire
- Working properly and having enough features
- Having enough support resources and an articulable “lower total cost of ownership” story
Because if we’ve got all five, our offerings will start to look irresistible, and I think we’ll gain market share very quickly!