Reindl Harald wrote:
well, the problem is that we (as users) spend so much of our life
time
by waiting for "making xyz better" - that works only well if things
where not better in the past, but after some iterations of "waiting for
things getting better" aka "waiting how the become mature as that what
you had before" you just get tired
And each time something finally starts working well, it gets replaced by a
new rewritten or heavily modified version that's completely broken.
It's not specific to KDE, I've seen the same issue throughout Fedora. See,
e.g., how DNF *still* lacks several Yum features, including essential ones
such as:
* --downloadonly
* --advisory=FEDORA-2015-nnnnn
* reliable Obsoletes handling so that split packages have a reproducible
upgrade path that does not lose parts of what users had installed
etc. (and that doesn't even consider the related PackageKit-hif backend,
which implements at most half of what a PackageKit backend is supposed to
implement, "by chance" the parts that GNOME Software happens to use).
But KDE also suffers a lot from this problem. See major new versions of
Plasma, see Akonadi (that is still utterly broken years after its
introduction where KMail 1 just worked), see also some individual
applications such as KsCD (a working application replaced by a half-assed
student project (!) rewrite, on the grounds that the old one was
"unmaintained"; well, of course the student rewrite is unmaintained too now
that the project has long ended), etc.
you get with each iteration of "we throw away working things and
now you
user have to wait for a unknown number of years to get them mature
again" more tired until you are at the point "why in the world do i
waste my life for waiting things to get mature again and not just accept
that the whole IT is broken, leave it at all and start a fast food
restaurant"
+1
Kevin Kofler