What's more, as I said before, it's the distro's job to do quality control, especially for something as critically central and important as the DE. Just look a

What's more, as I said before, it's the distro's job to do quality control, especially for something as critically central and important as the DE. Just look at Linux Mint and how their distro is all about their DEs; they don't just grab whatever some group says is "released" and slap it into the distro, they ensure all the parts are working together as intended and that the distro release is a coherent whole. The distros at the time of KDE4.0 didn't do this. They just threw some stuff together without doing even the most cursory checking to make sure the thing actually worked decently as a desktop/workstation OS for users and put it out there, and then wondered why users were so mad about the unstable behavior.