On Sunday 25 January 2009 21:26:31 Timothy Murphy wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
> Linus has the strange idea that the desktop he chooses actually matters.
> It
> doesn't. He made his own choice, and for his own reasons. Frankly, I
> don't care.
I do.
I usually agree with Anne, but in this case
I hope Linus changing to Gnome will teach Fedora/KDE a lesson.
It did make me think of trying Gnome,
but I'm probably too lazy and set in my ways for that.
I still find the KDE-3/4 changeover completely baffling.
It is as though the KDE-3 team had been lost in an earthquake
with all their archives,
and a new team developing KDE-4 had to work
from their recollection of how KDE-3 functioned.
It's only when you've used 4 for a while that you realise just how many
things
in 3.x were only half-functional. When I first tried 4.0 I thought I'd never
live with it. Now there are so many things about it that I love and use
constantly that I now find it quite frustrating to work with a 3.x machine.
You can't get away from the fact that it is very different, and there is a
learning curve, but I'm convinced that it is will worth it.
Anne