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Happy Birthday: KDE is now 15

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25 pointsemilsedgh7 comments

I was hoping for some pictures that showed the progression of the UI through those 15 years but their Happy Birthday page didn't have it.

So the closest I could dig up is from the GUIdebook:

http://www.guidebookgallery.org/guis/kde

Mixed emotions:

KDE didn't win the world for the Linux / OSS desktop, but it did create what we know as Webkit, one of the major players in the app platform that's replacing the desktop.

Well, KDE and/or Gnome cannot win the world 'for' Linux. They are there to win the world 'with' Linux.

It's been nearly 10 years since I've used KDE full-time. With the lack of support for Gnome 2 and the clusterfuck that is Gnome 3, I'm tempted to give it another shot.

I have been using Gnome 2 for a number of years, but recently decided to test a bunch of different wms: Gnome 3, Unity, awesome, xmonad, LXDE, and KDE. I gave each at least 2 weeks of use to get over the "change" hump.

I hadn't used KDE since Mandrake days in the late 90's, and had a negative impression from the KDE 4.0 issues. But have been pleasantly surprised at its utility and configurability while still looking good on both my 10" laptop and 24" desktop.

I'm running on Kubuntu 10.10 with no problems what so ever, using the 'backports' repository for the newer KDE packages, and running KDE 4.6.2 at the moment.

I can tell you that it's stable as hell. If it wasn't I was going to be forced to make backup of my PC and install 11.04, but It's running so great that I don't want to waste my time on doing that.

On the other hand, with the release of Kubuntu 11.10 this month, I will, just for the sake of staying up to date with all the packages :) and plus, becaue of KDE 4.7! :)

You missed out on some fun ones: FVWM, StumpWM, dwm, and w9wm. I tend to switch window managers every few months... but I've used all of those for years.

Which one did you end up preferring?

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