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I never got over the renaming to Plasma. KDE 3 was great at it's time, but KDE4 / Plasma felt like this bloated, buggy desktop shell seemingly based on QML (not

I never got over the renaming to Plasma. KDE 3 was great at it's time, but KDE4 / Plasma felt like this bloated, buggy desktop shell seemingly based on QML (not sure, but it looked like it did) with the strange cashew in the corner. Plasma was too configurable, with too many ways to break your setup. I'm sure it got a lot better, and people have even described Plasma 5.x as light weight. The times I tried it later, I liked it, but for the time being the Linux desktop has lost me and I'm using Mac :-)

atoav 4y ago
I entered the game way after the renaming and it makes a lot of sense to me. KDE is the organization, plasma is that specific project (like Korganizer is the Calendar application).
- account42 4y ago
  It makes a lot less sense once you realize that KDE once stood for K Desktop Environment. Trying to retcon this into the name for the organization is just wankery. Plasma is also already the name for the shell, no need to use it for the desktop environment as a whole.
zokula 4y ago