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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta 1 released

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta 1 released

Posted Mar 22, 2010 17:33 UTC (Mon) by einstein (subscriber, #2052)
In reply to: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta 1 released by horen
Parent article: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta 1 released

Because nobody expects kde to work anymore? Seriously, the hue and cry you
mention took place awhile ago, when the disastrous 4.0 was released and most
kde users defected en masse. Few have ventured back. Most, like me, have
found gnome or other desktop environments agreeable. I'm not convinced the
kde devs are concerned with normal users anymore.

Back in the days of kde 3.5.x, kde was the overwhelming favorite desktop, as
indicated by the various polls on the subject. In the aftermath of the 4.x
release, the popularity of kde was way down there with twm, last I checked.


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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta 1 released

Posted Mar 22, 2010 20:01 UTC (Mon) by Adi (guest, #52678) [Link]

Where do you have such interesting polls? Really, link please.

AFAIK KDE as whole lost maybe 10% points of its popularity during 4.0/4.1 times. And since release of 4.3 its popularity stopped decreasing.

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta 1 released

Posted Mar 23, 2010 3:47 UTC (Tue) by horen (subscriber, #2514) [Link]

Right, KDE/4.3 *did* fix (most of) the problems with /4.0; however, /4.4 then proceeded to *break* things, once again. What's up with this?

It reminds me of the joke "How many psychiatrists does it take to change a lightbulb?" "None, but the bulb has to *really want* to change!"

KDE/4.4 works, but you have to *really want* to use it, if you're going to move from /4.3 :-)

It shouldn't be this way.

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