KDE goes vroom vroom 🚗! 2026 Mercedes-Benz CLA, the first car to run KDE's KWin, receives "Car of the Year" award

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media.mercedes-benz.com/article/4cbc2640-87c7-4…

And here is KDE's Victoria Fischer explaining how Mercedes uses Qt in its vehicles:

https://youtu.be/pqJ-9SUPFwY

KDE highlight at 8:22.

Note that the bling Victoria is sporting is not official KDE merch... yet!

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@Bro666 too bad data collection is just about everywhere in modern day cars

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Can you enable wobbly windows in the car?

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Only at sufficient highway speeds.

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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz?

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We'll raffle one off at the next Akademy!

[Ed.: No we won't. We aren't even allowed legally to do that. But maybe come to Akademy anyway.]

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My friends all drive Porsches. I must make amends.

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FYI for anyone else looking: there's absolutely nothing about it in the linked Mercedes press release.

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Yeah, they're really dropping the ball here on the important stuff...

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Correct, to our chagrin. But it is there. KDE developers actually worked on it and implemented it. See the linked video. It is only a few minutes long.

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Now I understand what people mean when they write about "daily driving" in connection with their OSs.

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🏅 For best joke in thread 🙄

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2026: The year of the Linux dashboard

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