KDE's 2025 fundraising has been a huge success (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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Absolutely smashing their goals, the KDE team have managed to have a huge success for the 2025 fundraiser that's currently ongoing. 70% of KDE funding comes directly from users, so it's essential to help fund the free and open source software that you love.

The current total at time of writing has managed to hit a nice €272,256.5. Going by a blog post from developer Nate Graham, a whole lot of it came directly from the KDE Plasma pop-up that they added to remind people to support development

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[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

And they deserve it! KDE is an amazing desktop and suite. I wish they had more funding and were used by european governments who contributed back.

[-] northernlights@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago

And they deserve every cent.

[-] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 days ago

Now count that money compared to the top 10 richest people. What a disgrace.

this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2025

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