Comment by LeFantome
17 hours ago
It was better up until about version 3. Then KDE got worse and Windows got better.
I think KDE is back in top again.
17 hours ago
It was better up until about version 3. Then KDE got worse and Windows got better.
I think KDE is back in top again.
KDE 4 was the bad one, not 3.
In fact, it was so unpopular that it inspired a fork of KDE 3: https://www.trinitydesktop.org/
(IMHO, later versions of KDE got good, but even today I understand the appeal of just sticking to the same thing)
And it still exists, by looking at the NEWS section! That's a long grudge to hold :)
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Never understood that part really. I was using KDE 4 since 3.97rc2 (which wasn't easy to install and still had some glitches) and absolutely loved it.
I wanted to use KDE 4 when it released, but it kept crashing on my machine. I would update it every once in a while and try again but issue would always pop up. By the time "plasma 4.4 is stable" was declared, I had lost interest and started using tiling window managers .
That said KDE 6 is pretty solid. I rarely have issues with it.
It had a lot less features than kde3, all the semantic desktop stuff didn't work and kdepim didn't work either But they did run at 100% cpu very often.
I remember it being very slow and buggy, and missing a lot of features I liked in 3.5. Dolphin also felt like a big downgrade from Konqueror. I didn't start liking KDE again until Plasma 5.
Really? Interesting. I loved KDE3, but hated KDE4 so much (slow, unintuitive UI, bugs) that I haven't looked at it since, preferring Xfce instead. I guess I could give it a spin again...