FWIW, I liked KDE's early 4.x builds. I thought it seemed like a major improvement both functionally and visually over 3.x. The only problem is, I've never bee

FWIW, I liked KDE's early 4.x builds. I thought it seemed like a major improvement both functionally and visually over 3.x. The only problem is, I've never been able to use KDE for longer than about a day before experiencing major (read: show-stopping) performance regressions and severe crashes (read: listening to music while programming, suddenly whole desktop disappears and it drops back to the login manager, or I'm beset by dozens of dialog boxes about SIGSEGV errors buried in 30-thread spaghetti messes while my music mysteriously stops). I've also run into serious data corruption issues where something nuked the Nepomuk databases or something else nuked the Plasma widget configs. As a result, I've found KDE 4.x completely unusable. I try it now and then to see if they've fixed anything, but as of 4.10, I still can't use it for more than a few hours without something blowing up. So, to me, the community is irrelevant if the software is useless.