Holiday Hacking 2025

Like every year I took a couple of days off at the end of the year to wind down and spent some quality time with the family. Time just flies and it feels like the year had only just begun. I have also taken the time to revisit some of my work-in-progress merge requests and tried to push them over the finish line.

Plasma volume OSD showing a megaphone and “Speak…” indicating that push to talk is enabled and the user may speak now
Please talk now or forever hold your peace.
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30 Reasons I ❤️ KDE Plasma

KDE’s 30th birthday is coming up next year. For this year’s holiday season I therefore decided to compile a list of 30 reasons why I love KDE Plasma. It makes me so much more productive and work a lot more fun. While some of the items listed below aren’t unique to Plasma, it’s the combination of all of those things that truly makes it the best desktop environment out there. Tell me, what are your top reasons?

Vertical christmas gift card with Konqi, KDE’s mascot dragon, christmas tree decoration
Konqi Christmas post card (CC-BY-SA-4-0 Timothée Giet)
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