I Just Wanted to Print a Sandwich - KDE Blogs

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Or: how I ended up developing KDE Linux.

Most of the people who work on KDE Linux arrived the same way. They were KDE developers first, and then either helped start the project or wandered over to it once it existed. I went the other direction entirely. I was a user. Then a user who filed bugs. Then a user who fixed them. Somewhere in there I became one of the more active contributors, and only after all of that did I become a KDE developer.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blogs.kde.org/2026/09/01/i-just-wanted-to-print-a-sandwich/
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From a KDE Linux user (and baby contributor? Not really, I just sometimes report bugs and mostly enjoy the discussions), thanks for your contributions. You’re definitely part of the core team of the project now.

Let’s continue going bananas!

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If you aren’t a contributor, then the word doesn’t mean anything!

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I still don’t have the Contributor label on a KDE Linux repo because no commit yet :index_pointing_up: :nerd_face:
(Gitlab’s fault tbh)

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Well what are you waiting for? The repo is not gonna contribute itself? :joy:

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