The fall of KDE?

[Girard Henri]

you are wrong : i just compiled kde4.2 and i can tell you it's really a
good stuff even still in alpha
i upgraded this morning alpha 9.0.4 no on itch !
don't be so "morose"


Le mardi 18 novembre 2008 à 10:39 +0000, alan c a écrit :
> Knapp wrote:
> > It was easy to see coming. This is from a link on Google, meaning it
> > is getting a lot of reading. How can this be good for Kubuntu? I sure
> > hope the devs see stuff like this and learn. I find it very
> > distasteful to watch my favorite desktop crash and burn due to bad
> > planning and poor thinking.
> > http://ardchoille.nfshost.com/Blog/20081116
> 
> I am not in the least surprised.
> I have stopped regarding myself as a committed kubuntu user and am 
> deliberately using gnome more and more after seeing what kubuntu 8.10 
> has become. I will certainly stay with 8.04 lts for as long as 
> possible - mostly using kubuntu which I have preferred.
> 
> I distribute a lot of live CDs and have also now stopped handing out 
> kubntu to newcomers, they will only get indigestion if they upgrade to 
> 8.10 when unprepared. It has been too easy to do a version upgrade 
> unwittingly, before 8.04, but that is not just a kubuntu thing.
> 
> I help an elderly friend with computers - they have a dual boot laptop 
> and a dual boot desktop. They have innocently done a version upgrade 
> to 8.10 and did not like it to such an extent that they stopped using it.
> 
> I took them to gnome which is ok, it is nice and simple, (although 
> they liked kubuntu pre 8.10). This has verified my fears that the 
> increasing popularity of ubuntu will find the existing kubuntu 
> offering  to be an adverse factor, most particularly for beginners. 
> This is a reversal of what used to happen,  kubuntu (pre 8.10) was a 
> good competition for windows.
> 
> I do hope I am wrong.
> -- 
> alan cocks
> now a Ubuntu user #10391
> Linux user #360648
>