> KDE also had a transition disaster. That time was not a good time for Linux on the Desktop. KDE's transition disaster came a bit earlier, with the release of

> KDE also had a transition disaster. That time was not a good time for Linux on the Desktop. KDE's transition disaster came a bit earlier, with the release of KDE 4.0 in 2008. By the time GNOME 3 came out in 2011, KDE 4.x had seen 6 or 7 feature releases, and had (imo) largely recovered from all the rewrites in terms of feature parity. I was pretty happy on KDE in 2011.