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This is not the only snarky comment about the 3->4 transition, but I feel they are overly harsh. A big problem with that transition was distros jumping to ship
by estebank 3y ago
This is not the only snarky comment about the 3->4 transition, but I feel they are overly harsh. A big problem with that transition was distros jumping to ship pre-release software to users long before the release was ready, which really soured the perception of the new version. There were bugs, but the perception lasted longer than the reality, IMO.
That being said, I'm still sad about the Amarok 1.4->2 transition and subsequent death.
- skeletal88 3y agoYep, this was sad. Amarok used to rock
- okanat 3y ago> That being said, I'm still sad about the Amarok 1.4->2 transition and subsequent death. Strawberry Player (the fork of Clementine which is the fork of Amarok 1.4) is still going and it is ported to Qt 6 so it works okay with many highdpi environments
- dagw 3y agoI feel they are overly harsh From a purely technical perspective perhaps, but overall I don't think so. KDE3 was hugely popular and regularly depolyed. Based on my personal observations (admittedly EU based), it was the single most popular *nix desktop at the time. KDE4 more or less killed that over night and as far as I can tell KDE has never recovered neither marketshare nor the mindshare it had. On a personal note I went from a huge KDE fan, and someone who deployed and managed KDE3 workstations at a small company, to literally not using it for over a decade. the perception lasted longer than the reality Which is the one really important lesson in all of this.