I think the real advantage in a competition would be to revert to KDE3. Many of the competitors install KDE4 as well so all the stubborn KDE3 users would switch to openSUSE. (:
The only distro with a real, viable KDE 3 is Kubuntu with the Pearson Computing Repository: http://apt.pearsoncomputing.net/ That is pretty much how this thread got started.
Second, they didn't dump KDE 3.5.10. They left it in until OpenSuse 11.1, and Yes, but they set KDE4 default. Unexperienced users choose the default and this makes the issue even worse, ie offering unstable, buggy desktop to unexperienced users (possibly newcomers).
KDE >= 4.2 is no longer buggy. Well, 4.2 was a bit, but 4.4 is rock stable and feature complete.
I wouldn't blame KDE for OpenSuse switching, in my view, prematurely. And I don't blame KDE in this regard. I just noted that they claimed that they product was stable and production quality, and claiming this they mislead many users. But I think openSUSE's responsibility is higher. A distro (not only openSUSE) can decide that a given product has or has not reached the quality required to be included in the distro. My personal opinion is that distros should have delayed shipping KDE4 apart from experimental option. In this case KDE team also could have been pressed to do nicer job. There would have been much less frustrations and needless discussions.
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