It has felt quite good to be a KDE long-timer watching all this unfold.

72deluxe 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I missed KDE 3.5 for many many years, as KDE 4 was terrible by comparison, and went to MATE due to the awful GNOME 3. KDE 3.5 was so so usable and Konqueror handled everything well.

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samtheprogram 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I’m sorry, but the release of Plasma, around the same time IIRC, was not without controversy.

	▲	overfeed 21 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		KDE 4.0 - which introduced plasma - was released in 2006, and it was awful and wasn't supposed to be generally available (blame the distros and/or poor version naming). By version 4.5 (2010), KDE had stabilized. By the time Gnome 3 and Windows 8 were released in 2011/2012 respectively, KDE plasma was pleasant to use and rock-solid It felt great to watch Gnome stumble after all the shit-talking, some schadenfreude was in order. I didn't care much for Windows 8; Vista was a the bigger mess of a release.
	▲	jrm4 21 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		But, come on, a WHOLE OTHER LEVEL of "controversy." Plasma criticism was pointed and deliberate and grownup. Windows 8, less so.