Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 12th Jan 2009 22:51 UTC
When KDE 4.0 was first released, it was met with quite some criticism. Even though people saw the huge potential, the lack of functionality and stability, as well as quite a few bugs detracted from the experience. The KDE developers continued to work on implementing their relatively radical vision, and with the release of KDE 4.2 creeping ever closer, it seems they're well on their way.
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Member since:2007-03-26
Yeah I know, it will always improve! I know. But it doesn't stabilize for long. (incidently, kde 3 is mostly stabilized... nice)
I'm a full time KDE4 user and I happen to think KDE4 is already mostly stabilized.
In fact there's only one bug I experience (Switching folder views on a mounted CIFS directory causes dolphin to crash - however that might be as much down to the CIFS connection / server as it is down to dolphin)
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by MightyPenguin on Tue 13th Jan 2009 18:37
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Member since:2005-11-18
I think most people aren't complaining about bugs with KDE4 anymore, it's mostly about features and apps.
I use it fulltime and there are still some desktop things that aren't fully there yet. I guess this really shouldn't be too surprising because it was KDE 3.3 or 3.4 that really started to have the polish for that major release.
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Member since:2007-02-17
By comparison...the latest gnome is ALSO the one to get. The difference here is that kde currently progresses far more between releases than gnome.
While that is true, the real "secret" is that KE4 is the only desktop for Linux that utilises the GPU to render the desktop. As long as the system has a GPU and driver for Linux that is working, KDE4 is far and away the fastest desktop available for Linux, beating out even the "lightweight" desktops for speed.
KDE4 is not only innovating much faster than GNOME, and already is more powerful than GNOME, it has also opened up a considerable performance gap over GNOME on the same hardware.
Edited 2009-01-13 10:24 UTC
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2005-11-11
LOL that's what people were saying about 4.0. Then when 4.0 came out, everyone was saying how 4.1 was going to be the *real* release. Then when 4.1 came out, everyone was like, no, 4.2 is going to be the one to get! So now 4.3 is the shizna, and 4.2 is just pales in comparison? Haha. History is repeating itself yet again!
As much as I love KDE, it like so many open source projects are never done. This is a good thing and in some ways, a bad thing. Yeah I know, it will always improve! I know. But it doesn't stabilize for long. (incidently, kde 3 is mostly stabilized... nice)