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Happy Birthday: KDE is now 15

25 points by emilsedgh 15y ago

superjared 15y ago
It's been nearly 10 years since I've used KDE full-time. With the lack of support for Gnome 2 and the clusterfuck that is Gnome 3, I'm tempted to give it another shot.
- acegopher 15y ago
  I have been using Gnome 2 for a number of years, but recently decided to test a bunch of different wms: Gnome 3, Unity, awesome, xmonad, LXDE, and KDE. I gave each at least 2 weeks of use to get over the "change" hump. I hadn't used KDE since Mandrake days in the late 90's, and had a negative impression from the KDE 4.0 issues. But have been pleasantly surprised at its utility and configurability while still looking good on both my 10" laptop and 24" desktop.
  - jff 15y ago
    You missed out on some fun ones: FVWM, StumpWM, dwm, and w9wm. I tend to switch window managers every few months... but I've used all of those for years. Which one did you end up preferring?
  - moondowner 15y ago
    I'm running on Kubuntu 10.10 with no problems what so ever, using the 'backports' repository for the newer KDE packages, and running KDE 4.6.2 at the moment. I can tell you that it's stable as hell. If it wasn't I was going to be forced to make backup of my PC and install 11.04, but It's running so great that I don't want to waste my time on doing that. On the other hand, with the release of Kubuntu 11.10 this month, I will, just for the sake of staying up to date with all the packages :) and plus, becaue of KDE 4.7! :)
nailer 15y ago
Mixed emotions: KDE didn't win the world for the Linux / OSS desktop, but it did create what we know as Webkit, one of the major players in the app platform that's replacing the desktop.
- emilsedgh 15y ago
  Well, KDE and/or Gnome cannot win the world 'for' Linux. They are there to win the world 'with' Linux.
aninteger 15y ago
I was hoping for some pictures that showed the progression of the UI through those 15 years but their Happy Birthday page didn't have it. So the closest I could dig up is from the GUIdebook: http://www.guidebookgallery.org/guis/kde http://www.guidebookgallery.org/guis/kde

25 points by emilsedgh 15y ago

It's been nearly 10 years since I've used KDE full-time. With the lack of support for Gnome 2 and the clusterfuck that is Gnome 3, I'm tempted to give it another shot.

acegopher 15y ago
I have been using Gnome 2 for a number of years, but recently decided to test a bunch of different wms: Gnome 3, Unity, awesome, xmonad, LXDE, and KDE. I gave each at least 2 weeks of use to get over the "change" hump. I hadn't used KDE since Mandrake days in the late 90's, and had a negative impression from the KDE 4.0 issues. But have been pleasantly surprised at its utility and configurability while still looking good on both my 10" laptop and 24" desktop.
- jff 15y ago
  You missed out on some fun ones: FVWM, StumpWM, dwm, and w9wm. I tend to switch window managers every few months... but I've used all of those for years. Which one did you end up preferring?
- moondowner 15y ago
  I'm running on Kubuntu 10.10 with no problems what so ever, using the 'backports' repository for the newer KDE packages, and running KDE 4.6.2 at the moment. I can tell you that it's stable as hell. If it wasn't I was going to be forced to make backup of my PC and install 11.04, but It's running so great that I don't want to waste my time on doing that. On the other hand, with the release of Kubuntu 11.10 this month, I will, just for the sake of staying up to date with all the packages :) and plus, becaue of KDE 4.7! :)

nailer 15y ago

Mixed emotions: KDE didn't win the world for the Linux / OSS desktop, but it did create what we know as Webkit, one of the major players in the app platform that's replacing the desktop.

emilsedgh 15y ago
Well, KDE and/or Gnome cannot win the world 'for' Linux. They are there to win the world 'with' Linux.

aninteger 15y ago

I was hoping for some pictures that showed the progression of the UI through those 15 years but their Happy Birthday page didn't have it. So the closest I could dig up is from the GUIdebook: http://www.guidebookgallery.org/guis/kde http://www.guidebookgallery.org/guis/kde