I have used KDE since 2001 and have always disliked Gnome. When I installed Fedora 9 I found KDE 4 to be disappointing, and I was actually forced to use Gnome just to be able to perform certain tasks. I have now switched to Fedora 8, which is better by far, because I really don't want to use Gnome.
When Fedora 7 was released I thought for the first time that Linux was 'there': I had a setup that never left me feeling that I needed something more. KDE 4 was like using Gnome: limited.
We have people avoiding Windows Vista because it's 'different', and then Linux users are offered a 'different' KDE. We should at least have had the option of switching from standard behaviour to the new style. The taskbar is vile!
The start menu is awful too. If you know where something is it's OK, but you have to spend much more time going backwards and forwards if you're looking for an application... but at least there is an option to return to the classic style.
If Microsoft had released something as poor as KDE 4 we would be laughing and poking fun. KDE 4 is shameful. It is slower -- for the first time, rather than being faster! It is a step forwards that is a step backwards.
We had an 'extract here' in the context menu, and also a 'compress as' option, allowing easy packing and unpacking. Where is that in KDE 4? ARK didn't even know how to handle bz2 files, so I had to revert to the command line.
There are some improvements in KDE 4, but at the moment I can only think about how, for the first time, I've had to do exactly what people are doing with Windows: going back to the previous version.
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KDE 4 - the Vista of Linux
Posted by: OwlWhacker on June 09, 2008 08:58 AMWhen Fedora 7 was released I thought for the first time that Linux was 'there': I had a setup that never left me feeling that I needed something more. KDE 4 was like using Gnome: limited.
We have people avoiding Windows Vista because it's 'different', and then Linux users are offered a 'different' KDE. We should at least have had the option of switching from standard behaviour to the new style. The taskbar is vile!
The start menu is awful too. If you know where something is it's OK, but you have to spend much more time going backwards and forwards if you're looking for an application... but at least there is an option to return to the classic style.
If Microsoft had released something as poor as KDE 4 we would be laughing and poking fun. KDE 4 is shameful. It is slower -- for the first time, rather than being faster! It is a step forwards that is a step backwards.
We had an 'extract here' in the context menu, and also a 'compress as' option, allowing easy packing and unpacking. Where is that in KDE 4? ARK didn't even know how to handle bz2 files, so I had to revert to the command line.
There are some improvements in KDE 4, but at the moment I can only think about how, for the first time, I've had to do exactly what people are doing with Windows: going back to the previous version.
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