jester
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 Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2025 2:41 am Post subject: ArsTechnica previews KDE SC 4.4 beta 1 |
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Long-time usaluggers will know that I'm a Gnome/Openbox user with decent mileage in e17 too. I've not really had a great experience with KDE though there was a time when I preferred it (KDE2.x) to Gnome (1.x).
A lot of that stemmed from what I perceived to be 'clutter', a lack of coherence, and a nagging sense that I was not a million miles away from a Windows DE.
However, it is important to keep an open-mind, if we didn't we wouldn't even be using linux in the first place; the beauty of the linux landscape is diversity and choice.
In my recent dabblings with firstly, FreeBSD and more recently, Fedora, I've opted to stick with KDE and I'm currently on 4.3.3 on my second desktop. To quote myself, I've been quite impressed with the advances in KDE4.x.x:
So, though it hasn't ousted Gnome on my main box, I do tend to pay a lot more attention to what's going on with KDE these days:
As I've mentioned elsewhere, I think innovation and improvement in the WM/DE arena drives competition which is exciting for us as users; I'm looking forward to seeing how the Gnome devs respond 
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