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Several of the distributions made the problem worse by making KDE 4 the default install. While it is clearly labeled as a BETA on the openSuSE web site, the KDE install CD disk wont install 3.5, only the DVD version will. You can fix that in package management after installing, but you still have to FIX it. My personal complaints are things like breaking the cut/paste/properties contract with the user, and in general, I dont share the performance complaints. I have to agree with Tony Unrau, "KDE and open source is not ever obligated to please users. We are not obligated to fix bugs. We are not obligated to implement things that you demand. We are not obligated to provide open forums for you to attack us personally." The people who create KDE are like a volunteer fire department. They will do what they want to do, as long as they like to do it, and no longer. Consumers want stuff that works in a way they can understand. Maybe that's not KDE now, but the way it used to be. Somebody who doesn't like that situation is free to fork KDE into NewKDE, and bring the best of the past with the best of the future. But somebody out there does have to please the users, ifr we ever want to get above 1% market share.

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