You're right. If a German politician, yet alone the chancellor, would say something like "we're not doing the wind thing" (roughly: Das Windding machen wir nicht") I would be highly irritated.
But, there are phrases similar that would be acceptable although they would be kind of unprofessional like "Den Windunfug gehen wir nicht mit"
That being said some stupid neo Nazi afd politician just said "Wir werden diese Windmühlen der Schande niederreißen" (We're going to tear down those windmills of shame/disgrace")
Maybe we've already arrived at trump's language level.
I guess it was suse or red hat somewhen end of 90s or beginning of 2000. Anyhow I didn't like KDE back in the days and haven't touched it since. Although the screenshots I've seen of the latest kde looked kind of good. But I'm mostly running arch or manjaro today and prefer gnome or some tiling manager like herbstluftwm.