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I tried KDE 1.0 two decades ago. Although it looked like a copy of windows ideas in some points, it already seemed better even at the time.
by marcodiego 1y ago
I tried KDE 1.0 two decades ago. Although it looked like a copy of windows ideas in some points, it already seemed better even at the time.
- LeFantome 1y agoIt was better up until about version 3. Then KDE got worse and Windows got better. I think KDE is back in top again.
- Narishma 1y agoKDE 4 was the bad one, not 3.
- yjftsjthsd-h 1y agoIn fact, it was so unpopular that it inspired a fork of KDE 3: https://www.trinitydesktop.org/ https://www.trinitydesktop.org/ (IMHO, later versions of KDE got good, but even today I understand the appeal of just sticking to the same thing)
- darkwater 1y agoAnd it still exists, by looking at the NEWS section! That's a long grudge to hold :)
- yjftsjthsd-h 1y agoI don't know that it's a grudge per se; people liked KDE 3, so they forked it and stayed on the working thing that they liked. Don't fix what isn't broken.
- wkat4242 1y agoYeah it's kinda the same thing that happened to gnome 2 though it wasn't really a fork but rather a respawn in the form of cinnamon.
- LambdaComplex 1y agoI think you're thinking of MATE. Cinnamon is a fork of GNOME 3.
- darkwater 1y agoI was going to reply that current MATE is more "modern" that late Gnome 2 compared to "Trinity vs KDE3", but then I went to compare screenshots and I wasn't right. But in both cases I'm amused that people can get so attached to a UI paradigm that they rather fork it and spend time and effort keeping it alive. It doesn't really click with me, but I admire the effort.
- alexey-salmin 1y agoNever understood that part really. I was using KDE 4 since 3.97rc2 (which wasn't easy to install and still had some glitches) and absolutely loved it.
- bornfreddy 1y agoReally? Interesting. I loved KDE3, but hated KDE4 so much (slow, unintuitive UI, bugs) that I haven't looked at it since, preferring Xfce instead. I guess I could give it a spin again...
- guappa 1y agoIt had a lot less features than kde3, all the semantic desktop stuff didn't work and kdepim didn't work either But they did run at 100% cpu very often.
- ppseafield 1y agoI wanted to use KDE 4 when it released, but it kept crashing on my machine. I would update it every once in a while and try again but issue would always pop up. By the time "plasma 4.4 is stable" was declared, I had lost interest and started using tiling window managers . That said KDE 6 is pretty solid. I rarely have issues with it.
- babypuncher 1y agoI remember it being very slow and buggy, and missing a lot of features I liked in 3.5. Dolphin also felt like a big downgrade from Konqueror. I didn't start liking KDE again until Plasma 5.
- dagw 1y agoKDE 1 was clearly a 'copy' of CDE, hence the name. KDE 2 was much more windows like.
- rascul 1y agoKde 3 was released over two decades ago in 2002.