KDE 2 was such an incredible experience when it came out. I understand the GPL purism in GNU/Linux that hobbled Qt and by extension KDE, but I always felt that

KDE 2 was such an incredible experience when it came out. I understand the GPL purism in GNU/Linux that hobbled Qt and by extension KDE, but I always felt that KDE from 2 onwards was by far the superior desktop environment. Ultimately despite Qt and KDE adopting GPL they never seemed to catch up in terms of corporate sponsorship or distro adoption. I thought it was a sort of bitter irony that Apple basically co-opted Konqueror into their core web platform... Shows the quality of engineering the KDE folks had.