Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 15th Dec 2003 07:07 UTC
The latest beta of KDE's 3.2, beta 2, was released a few days ago. I installed the provided Fedora RPMs and had a look in this early pre-release version of the popular X11 desktop environment. Six screenshots are included. We look at both the strengths and the weaknesses of the DE.
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I don't know why gnome fans must be so agressive. Must be some kind of inferiority complex. KDE is most definitely not a geek toy. It is the standard desktop environment in europe, just like gnome is the standard desktop environment in the US. Oh and by the way: debian stable is the most stable and reliable linux distribution in existence. If you think it is a geek toy just because it does not have enterprise written in bold letters all over it, you are just plain stupid. I use debian stable on a server for years, and apart from the occasional apt-get it has not required any maintenance.
About the features: I use KDE on a daily basis, and I use almost every feature you see in the konqueror menus. If you can't handle it, it is easy enough to remove the options you do not like. And if even that is too hard for you, there are numerous distros that offer a dumbed down KDE, such as Lindows.
The whole KControl issue is really ridiculous. I often install and use KDE productively without ever touching KControl. So a normal user could use KDE just fine without even knowing what KControl is or does. But when I have to use KControl it is much cleaner than the mess of windows XP configuration. Everything is in one place, and third party stuff like SuSEs Yast integrate just fine into the KControl.
I think the most important thing for KDE is to become even more stable.