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Your comment really gets to the point of my original post. A first time user of KDE 4.0 will puke all over the experience and _very_ quickly choose the other option - GNOME. And I can't say thay I would blame them. And in fact, I would have to recommend a GNOME desktop over a KDE 4.0 one (sad to say). P.S. - The ex-Ximian employees are laughing their ass off right now.

Thats part of my point, BUSINESS does not use KDE now. TDue to the 4.0 issues, they'll be sure not to use it, as it is such a risky item now. KDE will be nothing more than a hobbyist desktop under the current situation. For example, why should Novell continue to fund KDE developers if they know that their clients will not use KDE due to the moving target syndrome. This is a strategic error made by the KDE developers - in the end, they are shutting out end users (current or potential) with the cu...

Do the KDE 4.0 developers think ANY business is going to make a quantum jump in training and software to move from KDE 3.5 based apps and desktop to a KDE 4.0 based one? Of course they are not! What are they going to do? Why, they will move to Gnome, since virtually every commercial linux distro defaults to Gnome anyhow. Bottom line, due to the discontinuous jump from KDE 3.5 to 4.0, the KDE developers have managed to paint themselves into a corner. NO BUSINESS is going to stake their IT infrast...

I read the article, and I think that the KDE developers have lost touch a bit. Do they think ANY business is going to make a quantum jump in training and software to move from KDE 3.5 based apps and desktop to a KDE 4.0 based one? Of course they are not! What are they going to do? Why, they will move to Gnome, since virtually every commercial linux distro defaults to Gnome anyhow. Bottom line, due to the discontinuous jump from KDE 3.5 to 4.0, the KDE developers have managed to paint themselves ...

I always avoided the stupid KDE vs Gnome flame wars - I just kept using the GUI I loved, KDE. I loaded up KDE when it was version 1.0 and Linux (kernel) 1.3 was still around - so I've used Linux for awhile. So let me just say that I was horrified when I loaded the official KDE 4.0 into my opensuse 10.3. What were these people thinking ? KDE 4.0 reminds me of the VTech TV toy built for my 3 year-old boy - I just beeps and sqeeks with pretty colors all over it. So what are you supposed to do with ...

I installed KDE 4.0 via opensuse and was horrified. What were these people thinking ? Once they drop support for KDE 3.5, I'll move on to Gnome.

I installed KDE 4.0 via opensuse and was horrified. What were these people thinking ? Once they drop support for KDE 3.5, I'll move on to Gnome.

I installed KDE 4.0 via opensuse and was horrified. What were these people thinking ? Once they drop support for KDE 3.5, I'll move on to Gnome.