Scott Newton wrote:
On Tuesday 20 May 2008 12:53:40 Sam Clemens wrote:
Tell us about the problems which were discussed in February, and the assurances that KDE 4 would be ready by the time 11.0 was released, despite the fact that huge tracts of basic functionality are still missing.
And lets not forget the frequently crashing Konsole.
I'm using KDE4 and KDEPIM4 here at home everyday. I find it nicer to use than KDE3 and KDEPIM3 and yes there are some things missing but I would hardly say there was "huge tracts of basic functionality" missing. In fact, Konsole does not crash for me at all and I use it a lot. Konqueror still has some annoying bugs but most of the one's I've wanted to raise have already been in bugzilla. I can read my email, schedule things in the calendar, read my rss feeds, play my music, compile my programs, connect to work and even change the way my desktop looks without virtually no hassles. So what's missing? And no, I'm not associated with Novell at all.
If you want a rock solid production desktop spend the less than a hundred NZ dollars for a SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop subscription. If you don't want a cutting edge desktop install Gnome or KDE3.
KDE 3 is not bleeding edge. And that's the point...most customers don't want bleeding edge for our desktop.
Or just install KDE3 from SUSE 11 until you think KDE4 is ready.
The problem is, many at SuSE seem to be in an alternat universe where business users and newbies will put up with the sorts of deficiencies in the alpha-stage KDE 4 which have been discussed here ad nauseum. Now...if you have a business with a small shop, and he decided to try SuSE 11.0, and doesn't happen to have a SuSE *expert* there when he does it....and he chooses to use the KDE desktop, what sort of experience is he going to have? the incomplete, buggy KDE 4 experience? or the "that is so last month"* but reliable KDE 3 experience. Its not like your business users really give a fuck about transparency effects and other hollywood-ish special effects... they just want a RELIABLE COMPUTER WITH SOFTWARE THAT WORKS THAT DOESN'T CRASH KDE 4 is getting there...but it's NOT THERE YET. Don't send a teenager to do a man's job.
My 10c worth (afraid it's the smallest denomination we have here in NZ)
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