Warm fuzzies to start off 2025 :)

[Lydia Pintscher]

Happy New Year everyone!

Over the last 1.5 months we've had a very successful fundraising
season. Some donors added sweet notes to their donations. I wanted to
share a selection of them with you because it was such a joy to read
them coming in and and there is so much praise for all our work in
them. Please find a selection below :)
And a huge thank you to Paul, Nate and everyone else who helped for
making this fundraising season so successful!


Cheers
Lydia


* KDE Connect, truly makes my life so much better ❤️
* Ain’t got much to give, but I love KDE. Keep it real and keep it
coming my friends.
* Amazing work, love how customizable it is so everyone can change
their setup just how they like it. Also LOVE window rules!
* Thank you for your hard work. I have been using KDE since the Plasma
4.11 days and I have even seen and played with the source code of
Konqueror in the past. I am so proud of what you guys have managed to
achieve and I hope with this contribution you can do so much more.  To
KDE Plasma 7 and beyond!  Thank you/ Vielen Dank
* Been a user for 25 years
* Best DE for personal use, period. Not going back to anything else
any time soon.
* Donating because I'm just finishing my first full year daily driving
Fedora Plasma for both personal and work use, and it's been the best
year of software interaction I've ever had. Super appreciated and well
worth paying for - if I weren't underemployed I'd make it a recurring
donation. Keep up the good work!
* For making my life easier
* Happy Plasma user for many years. Thanks❣️
* Happy to donate! Being using Plasma for more than a decade and it is
getting better!   Thank you, guys! Keep the good work!
* Hey, thank you for all the great work you do! Thank you for
delivering software that does what it's intended for and isn't making
us into the product. Cheers!
* i <3 kde
* I have been using KDE since the mid-1990's so it is well deserved!
* I hope it helps, I don't have much, but I love the Open-source
projects. I hope to contribute one day.
* I just love how customizable everything is! I even love
community-made styles and animations as long as they work, so I hope
this keeps the effort going
* I love what you do!
* I thank you for saving my computer science degree
* I truly believe that KDE plasma is the true Linux desktop
environment, I appreciate all that you do.
* I'm really grateful for your work and I hope to see more great
software from you!
* I've been using KDE all my life and it has always been great, so I
figured I finally give back to the awesome people who build this
software!
* I've been using Plasma since 2020, and it clicked immediately. I'm a
big fan of KDE apps too, especially Krita. Keep up the good work!
* KDE has been a daily driver for me the last two years in work and
private. I am so glad it exists and I don't have to use Windows. Using
6.2 on Debian Sid right now and it looks great, even HDR works out of
the box. Great job!
* KDE is amazing, thank you for all the hard work!
* KDE is brill. Cheers!!! :)
* KDE is the best, seriously
* KDE made me love and spread Linux <3
* KDE made me really feel like Linux was comfortable to use. Thank you
to everyone that makes KDE possible!
* KDE rocks!
* Keep fighting the good fight.
* Keep the great work, you guys rocks! :)
* Many <3's for the team!
* Migrated from Windows back in Feb.  Tried multiple DE's and frankly
KDE is by far one of the best.  Thank you!
* Plasma is the best desktop environment that I ever tried.
* Thank you for all the great software that respects our freedom.
* Thank you for being awesome! <3
* Thank you for keeping your software actually good. In this
enshittification of everything, KDE has been one of the things that's
remained true to itself. Please don't change.
* Thank you for making my life better. It's not much, but I appreciate
the work that you do and hope to see KDE grow and become an even
better desktop experience.
* Thank you for providing an alternative to megacorps!
* Thank you so much! I'm a student so it's a tiny amount for now, but
my appreciation for your work and your contribution to FOSS is much
bigger! Wish you much success and good luck in your future work!
* Thanks for all the hard work and for keeping complex software open
source and available for everyone!
* Thanks for all the hard work! Hope that one day I'll be skilled
enough in C/C++/Rust to help you
* Thanks for being my preferred desktop for over 15 years!
* Thanks for making the awesome KDE/Plasma desktop, which has been my
daily driver for the last 15 years.
* Thanks for making the Linux experience great!
* Thanks for your hard work, transparency and friendly community! Love
using Desktop Environments since 2005.
* This is such great software, and even though this isn't much, I'm
happy to be able to give to the project!
* You are doing fantastic job! Thank you!
* You guys are truly amazing!
* You guys develop one of the coolest desktop ecosystem I've ever
seen. Thanks! Keep up the great work!
* Your software is helping me reach my dreams!

-- 
Lydia Pintscher - https://lydiapintscher.de - WD:Q18016466
KDE e.V. Board of Directors
http://kde.org - http://open-advice.org