Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

At some point (after years!) it became OK and I went back to it, but it was never as good as KDE 3.5 was for me. I realized it was not just nostalgia, when a friend showed me a laptop with KDE 3.5 and used it for some minutes.

While the whole DE got worse, there's two pieces that got better and better, Kate and KWin.




And desktop applets. KDE 4 is the only environment I ever used where these were stable and reliable.


> stable and reliable

They were not, for a few years.


They were for me, even on 4.0. Nothing else worked, but the plasma widgets did.




Join us for AI Startup School this June 16-17 in San Francisco!

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: