On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 12:21 +0400, Ilya Chernykh wrote:
What would that tell you? If hardly any people use it, it might be because they are happy with their KDE4 or because there are hardly any KDE4 users. If a lot of people use the repos it might be because they like to use KDE4 and opensuse does a good job regarding easy updates or it might be that they want the new features of the new version etc. No software is bug-free which is why all DEs do bugfix releases until they die. Usage numbers can be interepreted either way. What you need is absolute numbers which desktop is used. And then you still cannot say much because what matters is the "why" or "why not". In the times of 11.0 there was a poll on which DE use the OpenSUSE users, and it showed that the most still used KDE3. Next year there was similar
On Friday 20 August 2010 21:32:35 Sven Burmeister wrote: poll again but this time KDE3 option was dropped altogether (only KDE, Gnome Xfce left without specifying KDE variant).
As previously discussed - that poll means next to nothing. I know that neither myself or any of my coworkers filled it out. Unless you can pool a random [*not* self-selected] sample of users - your results do not mean anything at all. Nothing. Zip. Nada. It would be advantageous if people would just stop taking these kinds of polls.
Thus the number of KDE3 user dropped from the Majority to zero just in one year!
Ok, the original results didn't mean anything either, so who cares?
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Adam Tauno Williams