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About 4 years ago, I switched from KDE/Kubuntu to OSX. Not because I hated KDE, but because my job needed OSX. It takes divvy, sizeup, apptivate, bartenderapp to do, what I was able to do with KDE out of box. The dual monitor support in OSX is still not in par with KDE.

I have been using Kubuntu/KDE as my main workstation for last couple of months and I love depth of how much is possible with window environment. I think KDE works pretty well for powerusers as well as beginners and I am excited to see its new update!

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I was constantly surprised how KDE makes it possible to configure my environment exactly the way I like, while maintaining a bearable level of complexity in the control panel.

Really excited to see this visual update.

and yet every OSX diehard will think you're on crack and KDE is inferior.

Please don’t stir conflict by only reasoning in terms superior and inferior.

Things are different, no need to order them, especially on one single axis.

You made the point I was trying to make far better than I did. Whether or not it's the poster's intent, the terms superior and inferior imply that there is some objective judgement being made about the thing being discussed that is independent of one's personal preferences.

I honestly think that almost all pointless flamewars in tech forums about the relative merits of various languages/operating systems/editors/desktop environments/whatever stem from confusion among the participants over whether personal preferences or objective qualities are being discussed. It doesn't help that for a lot of people in the larval hacker stage, there is no distinction between objective and subjective judgements- if they happen to prefer vi to emacs, they interpret that as meaning that vi is intrinsically better in some way, and isn't just a better fit for their particular workflow or whatever.

You can't not-fight in here! This is the Internet!

You are correct sir. People who prefer OS X to KDE will prefer OS X to KDE, and people who prefer KDE to OS X will prefer KDE to OS X. Funny how it works out that way. :)

Every Gnome, XFCE and non-KDE Linux user will also tell you the same crack pipe.

Personally I love KDE apps and I have been using i3 tiled WM.

I'm surprised you identified dual monitor support as a specific issue in OSX. Can you elaborate on the nature of your troubles?

To begin with complete lack of any dual monitor shortcuts or configuration settings at all. With KDE, I can configure certain apps to start on certain screen, send them to one screen on another with a key press.

Same, without Moom transition to Mac was unbearable for me.

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