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I have huge respect for everyone involved in KDE and OpenSource software and I'm writing this on KDE 4.13 but damn... it still sucks. Maybe I'm the wrong user.. but I do programming and do sysadmin stuff most of the time.. First the good parts: KDE is quite stable for me. I have hardly any crashes... this is huge as Unity had some ugly bugs I could not resolve. But I had to install the Numix theme and icons and tweak…
I have huge respect for everyone involved in KDE and OpenSource software and I'm writing this on KDE 4.13 but damn... it still sucks. Maybe I'm the wrong user.. but I do programming and do sysadmin stuff most of the time.. First the good parts: KDE is quite stable for me. I have hardly any crashes... this is huge as Unity had some ugly bugs I could not resolve. But I had to install the Numix theme and icons and tweak…
It's got a lot of promise to be the best looking Linux desktop around. I don't really like the grey they use however; I'd lighten it up. But then you're in trouble of looking like iOS.
Have you seen elementaryOS? Everything they've come up with looks a million times more polished than anything else in the Linux world.
I have huge respect for everyone involved in KDE and OpenSource software and I'm writing this on KDE 4.13 but damn... it still sucks. Maybe I'm the wrong user.. but I do programming and do sysadmin stuff most of the time.. First the good parts: KDE is quite stable for me. I have hardly any crashes... this is huge as Unity had some ugly bugs I could not resolve. But I had to install the Numix theme and icons and tweak…
Running KDE on a dual core atom netbook with 2gb of ram (no ssd), and not experiencing any of the sluggishness you're talking about. In addition, I've added the kxstudio repositories, run a full JACK setup (considerable CPU overhead), and a digital audio workstation (ardour3) along with fl studio in a wine session. I plug in a second monitor, and I still have none of the problems you talk about. Granted, I'm only usi…
I have huge respect for everyone involved in KDE and OpenSource software and I'm writing this on KDE 4.13 but damn... it still sucks. Maybe I'm the wrong user.. but I do programming and do sysadmin stuff most of the time.. First the good parts: KDE is quite stable for me. I have hardly any crashes... this is huge as Unity had some ugly bugs I could not resolve. But I had to install the Numix theme and icons and tweak…
> Dolphin/Kwin/Konsole/Kate/Okular are really great tools, through and I enjoy using them more than the Gnome tools.. +1. This is why KDE has been my favourite desktop for 10 years. I don't do fancy stuff on my computer. I code. KDE gets the basic, essential tools right. Dolphin is better than Mac's Finder, Windows Explorer and Gnome's equivalent. And so is Konsole. I hope KDE keeps going strong.
I feel like KDE5 is ugly, I'm already missing the detailed and elegant design of KDE4. Maybe it's just my whole dislike of the "minimalism" movement in general, but KDE5 looks dull and lifeless. That's just the visuals though. There's other great stuff about it to discuss, but I still can't help be disgusted by it's new look everytime I see it.
My experience with KDE was always that it was prettier than GNOME 2 (at that time) but a massive resource hog, so I always ended up uninstalling it. I am curious how KDE has come along in addressing the bloat issue.
GNOME2 is still more lightweight. Where KDE has gained popularity is with people bailing out from GNOME 3. FLTK still retains the small-and-fast crown.
I have huge respect for everyone involved in KDE and OpenSource software and I'm writing this on KDE 4.13 but damn... it still sucks. Maybe I'm the wrong user.. but I do programming and do sysadmin stuff most of the time.. First the good parts: KDE is quite stable for me. I have hardly any crashes... this is huge as Unity had some ugly bugs I could not resolve. But I had to install the Numix theme and icons and tweak…
Despite BS comments from some Linux zealots to the contrary, a Windows desktop was almost always snappier than Gnome/KDE official releases, especially after version 2 for Gnome and 3 for KDE.
Now, for the serverside things change drastically. It also changes drastically if you just use some mininal window manager on Linux.
But the whole "Windows is bloated/slow" etc was mostly uninformed boasts, for people who didn't use both on a day to day basis and took the whole "open source is by definition faster/less bloated/etc" line hook and sinker.
I have huge respect for everyone involved in KDE and OpenSource software and I'm writing this on KDE 4.13 but damn... it still sucks. Maybe I'm the wrong user.. but I do programming and do sysadmin stuff most of the time.. First the good parts: KDE is quite stable for me. I have hardly any crashes... this is huge as Unity had some ugly bugs I could not resolve. But I had to install the Numix theme and icons and tweak…
Compare this with:
>GNOME: People-focused[1]
Is it just me or is this focus on humans/people good at creating unpopular software?