Kubuntu 8.10 Brings KDE 4 to the Masses (KDE.News) [LWN.net]

Kubuntu 8.10 Brings KDE 4 to the Masses (KDE.News)

Posted Nov 6, 2008 17:43 UTC (Thu) by horen (subscriber, #2514) [Link]

Wow, now didn't THAT article generate a lot of "fan mail"!

As for me, with Kubuntu/8.10 abandoning KDE/3.5.x in favor of /4.x, I moved over to Linux Mint/5 (KDE CE) on my workstation and laptop hosts, as well as those of other (now "former") Kubuntu/8.04 users (at their request).

You can "hype" KDE/4.x as much as you like, but "it's still spinach, and the hell with it!"

Kubuntu 8.10 Brings KDE 4 to the Masses (KDE.News)

Posted Nov 6, 2008 23:53 UTC (Thu) by kragil (subscriber, #34373) [Link]

?? KDE4 haters just make no sense ??

So you moved from 8.04 to a 8.04 based distro?
Wouldn't Debian Lenny make more sense?
Won't Mint drop KDE3 just like Kubuntu did for their next release?

Kubuntu 8.10 Brings KDE 4 to the Masses (KDE.News)

Posted Nov 7, 2008 22:17 UTC (Fri) by horen (subscriber, #2514) [Link]

"So you moved from 8.04 to a 8.04 based distro?
Wouldn't Debian Lenny make more sense?
Won't Mint drop KDE3 just like Kubuntu did for their next release?"

Debian "Lenny" *would* make sense... if it were already released; but it's not, so I went with a distro which *is* Debian-based.

I don't know if the folks at Linux Mint will or will not "drop KDE3"; but I do know that they plan to keep KDE/3.x for a couple of releases, until KDE/4.x is "ready for Prime Time" (they agree that, at present, KDE4 is not).

And if, in another year, Linux Mint "drops KDE3" in favor of KDE4, it will be because it is comparable to KDE3 in its features, configuration, etc. And, at that point, if I don't like the look-and-feel of KDE4, I might just move back to Debian (been there several times, already) and either install the KDE/3.x .deb packages, or compile it myself from source -- either option is a winner.

But don't label me a "hater".