so KDE 0.1 came out in 1997 and oh my is it gloriously Windows 95.

from https://t.co/DmkizTEndh pic.twitter.com/HXcBTpNjag

— foone (@Foone) February 28, 2020

Not really. It was designed mostly based on CDE, which looked like this:

Windows 95 took design elements from CDE and other desktops and window managers, which of course KDE also heavily relied on. There’s a reason the names of CDE and KDE are similar — same design DNA.