Yep, the last item in the list. Given the option, I’d spend a year wandering around the Japanese countryside rebuilding abandoned Shinto shrines, and not having to touch a computer (except maybe to order supplies if I really had to).
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You cud choose to never update.
I have no idea what your situation is, @elite, but you can see that you are probably concerned about several things. I myself have been involved in IT all my life, both professionally and privately, every day. Last year, I actually did what you have as the last option in your poll and what @SenileOtaku suggested. Vacation (my last real vacation was in 1993 
), several months without a cell phone or computer. During that time, I had my head free of all kinds of IT stuff and made some changes both professionally and privately. Since then, I’ve seen many IT things in a more differentiated, clearer way and with more distance - and have more peace and quiet. Nice side effect: I have more time for the Garuda Forum since then. 
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My mistake i totally thought you were advocating for x11. I do get it now.
Normally i do that the month of December, I do technically still have a place I rent from back when I worked there. But trips an stuff don’t do much for me mentally. Nature and me and health don’t get along. It always ends with a week stay in a hospital. So like last summer when I had issues with my eye for a few months lost sight and could be on any tech I got my reading caught up. haha
On nix that’s just not a thing haha. An partial updates on arch are way to annoying lol.
Short end of it kde is changing an in ways that add to my workload.
But for that I just changed most of the users who’s systems I built to macs. Have to take one more trip to change out the rest.
As much as I love kde I think its time for a break (Used it since 2005 and since 2015 full time) but, in terms of floating desktops that are not gtk spins. While having the basic features I need, choice is limited in the linux space. There’s like 2 1/2 haha other options.
I kinda wanted to know what others would pick in general. Got some good talks out of it though. I haven’t peaked at the results yet kinda want to be surprised. lol
That was meant in general. It’s clear what you’re mainly concerned with, as the topic extends from the news thread via the off-topic thread to here. As far as KDE and accessibility for handicapped users is concerned, I am of the same opinion as you and @tbg.
My intention was more to get some distance from the whole thing and re-evaluate it. If KDE doesn’t take care of it, then someone else will have to.
There are several open source projects to pimp KDE Plasma visually, but when it comes to accessibility, it looks really bad. But this is not really a KDE-only problem, but a general one in the Linux/open source community. Instead of choosing between KDE and another DE, or between Linux and a golden cage à la Apple and/or investing a lot of energy in several things, you could also invest a lot of energy in a few selected things.
Perhaps this would be an opportunity to get together with like-minded people and support one or more open source projects for accessibility or start one yourself - for example a visual radar for hearing-impaired users that shows which direction sounds are coming from (like Asus Sonar). This would benefit everyone, not just KDE users. 
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I have some eye tracking kit and the issue was if i wanted to do it in open source i had to go through the kernel for driver that’s okay money talks there and stuff can get done. Getting the base app made in a ux of choice is pretty much fine but QT is going though a growth spurt atm so things chosen now its unclear how long it would be tell that ux element or other qt feature would be supported. it should be fine tell qt7 but with no real road map that far out it makes it harder but its manageable.
And the last and worse part is Wayland devs it doesn’t matter if i put 500k or million dollars at it. There is no time scale on when something would be done or merged. I could have something one off made and add it to the systems I build for the people I help but, long term that’s not a good method. It’s a costly move with no return and by return. Others looking to use the hardware would have to know how to make that work and most are just users family’s or non techs so having it built in is ideal.
And for a little under 800k I can have it all done on the mac side in under 8 months no linux politics involved. Since some of the people I work with are terminal time is not on my side. For me I want to help the ppl I can help. Not use MS even though that would make it cheaper still long term.
I am more then willing to fund some projects though but they all come down to wayland politics and that makes it not worth the money. One I’ve been watching is Odilia https://odilia.app/ but for it to work well wayland has to move on a issue that’s been staled for years. I would also need a protocol or at least one to latch onto so that getting directional sound to even begin to work. I can say for certain but the app would have to have the protocol built into it for the reader or sound tool to see it. I could fund an get a base app right away it just wont be functional.
On the KDE side I’ve spoken with Ritchie quite a lot. They pretty much have free rain to do anything accessibility wise. So good things are coming and are planed. An I most likely will put some money there as things develop. Especially the global menu stuff we have been talking about. The next step there is to have a method via KDE ev to fund accessibility more directly. So users can put money to fund these changes and not need high capital to do so. So you can still keep the lights on but direct that flow to something you as the user want. (If anyone has some ideas do reach out to Ritchie. you can catch them often in the kde matrix use off-topic one for brainstorming)
Sorry for the long winded post ha, the DE swap is mainly cause I’m a bit bored of theming kde. I will say though it has the best theme engine even if they tone it down in the PC space. In terms of usability.
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