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Jonathan Riddell
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Jonathan Riddell's personal blog at jriddell.org covers programming. Since 2015, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Jonathan Riddell's blog covers KDE news, releases and history, including his 25-year KDE retrospective. HN commenters mostly cite his posts as sources in threads about KDE and Linux desktops.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE5 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2025-09-15
- RHEL is deprecating KDE3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-11-02
- Ubuntu Policy Complies with GPL, Fails to Address Other Software Freedom Issues2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-07-15
What Hacker News says?
> https://jriddell.org/2025/09/14/adios-chicos-25-years-of-kde... That was.. ..an interesting read. The seemingly perpetual need of defaulting back to greed and authoritarianism never ceases to amaze me. I was thinking about switching back to KDE. Well, maybe not after all. Cheerio, as they say.
Comment linking /2025/09/14/adios-chicos-25-years-of-kde/
on “Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper”Submitted RHEL is deprecating KDE as a story · 312 points
HN discussionSoftware engineering really took a dive in the last 10 years. For instance, KDE has a daemon that asks for donations, added by Nate "I am the king of KDE". Granted, the daemon is mostly pointless in general and not causing much issues (people are typically only bothered by it once then you can silence it), but just the time people invest here to harass others or add unnecessary software on other computers shows how…
Comment linking /2025/09/14/adios-chicos-25-years-of-kde/
on “Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper”Submitted Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE as a story · 161 points
HN discussionPython 2 was deprecated in RHEL 7.5 at least, maybe earlier[0] The news the submitter thought was interesting is about 90% down an excruciatingly long webpage... maybe linking instead to a story specifically about this news would be better?[1][2] Here's the release note tidbit: "KDE has been deprecated KDE Plasma Workspaces (KDE), which has been provided as an alternative to the default GNOME desktop environment has…
Comment linking /2018/11/02/red-hat-and-kde/
on “RHEL is deprecating KDE”Submitted Leaving KDE after 25 years as a story · 13 points
HN discussionhttps://jriddell.org/2018/11/02/red-hat-and-kde/
Comment linking /2018/11/02/red-hat-and-kde/
on “RHEL is deprecating KDE”Submitted Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE as a story · 9 points
HN discussionThe KDE 1 release is now available as a Docker image. http://jriddell.org/2016/10/14/kde-1-neon-lts-20-years-of-su...
Comment linking /2016/10/14/kde-1-neon-lts-20-years-of-supporting-freedom/
on “KDE Project releases KDE 1”Submitted Getting KDE Apps to Our Users as a story · 3 points
HN discussionA few followups: http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2015/07/15/ubuntu-ip-policy.html https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/35969.html http://jriddell.org/2015/07/15/ubuntu-policy-complies-with-g...
Comment linking /2015/07/15/ubuntu-policy-complies-with-gpl-but-fails-to-address-other-important-software-freedom-issues/
on “SFC and FSF Achieve GPL Compliance for Canonical IP Policy”Submitted A Decade of Plasma as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFor those like me who read the article and still had no idea what KDE Gear is: > KDE Gear is the new name for the app (and libraries and plugins) bundle of project that want the release faff taken off their hands. It was once called just KDE, then KDE SC, then KDE Applications, then the unbranded release service and now we’re banding it again as KDE Gear. ( https://jriddell.org/2021/03/22/kde-gear-21-04-apps-send-us…
Comment linking /2021/03/22/kde-gear-21-04-apps-send-us-your-features/
on “KDE Gear 21.04”Submitted OpenUK Awards 2024 as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> KDE feels a lot smoother and more responsive when using Wayland than when using X11 Or, the X11 code is more complex and they prefer Wayland because it is simpler. Fewer features. Is it a surprise that wayland would be faster, if it does less? > by this point most stuff has been updated to work properly on Wayland Really? Strange how comments on reddit do not confirm this. Admittedly they did fix various issues. I…
Comment linking /2025/09/14/adios-chicos-25-years-of-kde/
on “Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release”Submitted Betty the Fuzzpig Tries Plasma Wayland as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt is not just GNOME devs. Try to interact with systemd-poettering or I-pwn-glibc-Drepper. For some reason the Red Hat centric guys are troublemakers. More recently KDE devs also became troublemakers - first David "all must use systemd", then nate "I-can-ask-for-donations-at-will-by-placing-a-trojan-daemon-onto-people-whose-sole-job-is-to-ask-for-donations" (more about this guy here: https://jriddell.org/2025/09/14/…
Comment linking /2025/09/14/adios-chicos-25-years-of-kde/
on “PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch”Submitted GPL FUN as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI just can not take KDE seriously anymore ever since the donation-daemon waylaying users Robin Hood style via pop-ups (no, not even a single use of this is "acceptable", just as "acceptable ads" by Google were never acceptable to begin with; there is a reason Google went to destroy ublock origin lateron. The reason is simple: greed aka more money via ad pop ups. Why does the current KDE dev team think that pop-ups a…
Comment linking /2025/09/14/adios-chicos-25-years-of-kde/
on “KDE onboarding is good now”Submitted Ubuntu Policy Complies with GPL, Fails to Address Other Software Freedom Issues as a story · 1 points
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