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The same risks apply to any software proprietary or open source which is why Microsoft have the following in their licence agreement:

12. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY.The software is licensed “as-is.” You bear the risk of using it. Microsoft gives no express warranties, guarantees or conditions. You may have additional consumer rights under your local laws which this agreement cannot change. To the extent permitted under your local laws, Microsoft excludes the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. FOR AUSTRALIA ONLY: You have statutory guarantees under the Australian Consumer Law and nothing in these terms is intended to affect those rights.

LIMITATION ON AND EXCLUSION OF REMEDIES AND DAMAGES. You can recover from Microsoft and its suppliers only direct damages up to U.S. $5.00. You can't recover any other damages, including consequential, lost profits, special, indirect or incidental damages.

Knowing that and knowing that themes can have code is two different things though. I wasn't particularly surprised as I thought (maybe wrongly) that global themes just installed all the other bits which would require code.

Breeze, for example, contains a lot of code. For instance

A theme is software and software has bugs. While this one had a pretty dramatic effect, you take basically the same risk with every program you run. This, along with hardware and user errors are why backups are so important; they change a disaster to an inconvenience.

/ Preach mode off

That seems to have worked. Thanks.

Never pay for software for your job unless you're self employed. That's the employers responsibility.

Also went back to x11 because of vscode flickering and redrawing badly. I'm not sure whether it's an nvidia problem, a vscode problem, or a kwin-wayland problem though.

So I've updated my desktop and Plasma, Nvidia, and Wayland is actually usable 🫨 but I had to reapply a few settings.

Yeah, it's definitely like Trigger's Broom

In the month or so it's been on my laptop, it's been stable as in reliable but it's definitely not stable in the more traditional sense - unchanging.

Konsole. It meets all my needs.

The default Plasma Panel does most of what Latte Dock did.

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