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I was on Kubuntu when it shifted from 3.5 to 4.0. Gods, what a mess that was! I presume it's had time to settle down now; is it back to being as reliable as 3.5 was? Or do people with long memories still have to grit their teeth at all the missing features?

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KDE 4.0 was released on January 2008. KDE has improved since then.

Has it? I've tried two recent versions of Kubuntu (14.04 being the most recent) and found both of them so buggy and unpolished as to be practically unusable. I want to love KDE so badly because I love so much about it (the apps are powerful, you can actually configure things, it uses Qt) but the target audience appears, to me, to be people who make Youtube videos demonstrating KDE, not people who actually want to use it to do work. YMMV, as always :)

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