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It feels rather rude to the volunteer developers to accuse them of enshitification. Especially when it's not even true in this case as enshitification implies t

It feels rather rude to the volunteer developers to accuse them of enshitification. Especially when it's not even true in this case as enshitification implies trading the user experience for shareholder value - there's no share holder value being extracted here. The developers made the decision based on its merits. Furthermore, as I remember KDE4 did still have Konqueror - though it became slowly less maintained throughout its lifecycle as the web browser bit was hard to maintain in the changing web climate and Dolphin was providing a good user experience for many users.

redmajor12 2y ago
They traded user experience for developer egos. Ego is the equivalent of wealth in the OSS world, just as it is in academia. KDE 4 developers had some grand ideas to push on the world, such as the semantic web, regardless of whether or not their users cared for them.
- wkat4242 2y ago
  Yeah just like gnome 3 with its grand ideas that's now more barebones in terms of configurability than macOS.
  - 1oooqooq 2y ago
    to be fair, gnome3 unwritten moto was "we macos now", so, mission accomplished?
    - wkat4242 2y ago
      IMO they're worse than macOS now. But yeah this is why gnome 3 is absolutely not for me and I'll never support it as Linux' single recommended desktop.
- dingnuts 2y ago
  it's been almost twenty years since KDE 4 came out. it was terrible, yes. but Plasma 6, which was released this decade, kicks ass, so why are you so mad, Grandpa?
  - 1oooqooq 2y ago
    because gramps had to suffer gnome or the tiling wm du jour while kde was fixing itself. and if you think we were exaggerating in how bad our school route was, get ready for this one...