Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoWho needs stable, feature-rich desktops anywaydiscuss.tchncs.deimagemessage-square146fedilinkarrow-up1538file-text
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minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up26·21 hours agoI’m pretty sure that the vast majority of hate for KDE back in the day was because Qt started out with a non-Free Software license, not because it was bad in terms of quality.
minus-squarebluewing@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 hours agoYep. the Qt wars were real. And one needed to be careful about reveling your KDE use because you would get flamed with hatred.
minus-squareDarorad@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·16 hours agoKDE Plasma 4 was also really buggy when it first launched
minus-squareLeFantome@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 hour agoThat was it for me. I was actually a KDE user way back in the KDE 2 and 3 days. I found KDE 4 unusable. KDE 5 never won me over. But I have been using Plasma 6 on Wayland and am perfectly happy with it.
minus-squareBullishUtensil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 hour agoYep, that’s what brought me over to XFCE for several years. Back at KDE again, though
minus-squareherrvogel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·18 hours agoI personally hated KDE because it was a buggy, unstable mess for a long time.
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 hours agoAre you referring to the fact that a lot of distributions shipped KDE 4 pre release code?
I’m pretty sure that the vast majority of hate for KDE back in the day was because Qt started out with a non-Free Software license, not because it was bad in terms of quality.
Yep. the Qt wars were real. And one needed to be careful about reveling your KDE use because you would get flamed with hatred.
KDE Plasma 4 was also really buggy when it first launched
That was it for me. I was actually a KDE user way back in the KDE 2 and 3 days. I found KDE 4 unusable. KDE 5 never won me over. But I have been using Plasma 6 on Wayland and am perfectly happy with it.
Yep, that’s what brought me over to XFCE for several years. Back at KDE again, though
I personally hated KDE because it was a buggy, unstable mess for a long time.
Are you referring to the fact that a lot of distributions shipped KDE 4 pre release code?