On 03/13/2010 10:34 AM, Mail Lists wrote:
I'm curious how many current KDE users we have - what percent
of our
install base? And what percent of the desktop install base ?
Since the 3.5 -> 4.0 KDE pushathon, everyone I know who was a KDE user
(myself included, and Linus too!) switched to gnome and none has yet
gone back.
At least a part of the fuss about updates seems to be driven by KDE
wanting to be faster paced than the rest - I'm curious what percent of
our install base this actually represents today?
For me there were only 2 things disruptive I presently recall - the
last was F11 kmail no longer working after recent update - and the
devastatingly bad 3.5 -> 4.0 premature release.
I actually like the current general pace - its stable but we get
decent flow (tho it has slowed somewhat over the 12-18 months or so it
seems) of upstream updates/bug fixes and largely when appropriate larger
version bumps. Tho things like firefox lag too much imho - but I no
longer care as I now use chrome which is way way better.
Sure there are little hiccups here and there but overall things are
non-disruptive and decently up to date - and that is the right balance.
Congrats fedora management, redhat and contributors - and thank you.
KDE is alive and well. I used Gnome for a long time, and then gave KDE a
try, just on a hunch, in the process of upgrading (actually, a clean
install) from FC6 to F12, on a piece of almost brand-new equipment.
I would guess that KDE puts more demands on system resources than does
Gnome, in order to provide all the graphical bells and whistles that
Windows provides. I'm running it on an Intel Pentium dual-core
processor, with a 2.2 GHz clock, and 3 MB of RAM. That kind of setup
would run just about any desktop without a hitch.
But in my particular case, it's worth it. I'm using an old
password-management program that hasn't seen any maintenance since the
FC4 era. It loads into the K tray without a problem. On Gnome it
sometimes doesn't load properly into the system tray until the second
login since power-up, and that can be really annoying. (Though whether
my old hardware--a Pentium III 1.6-GHz single-core processor with only
500 MB of RAM--was creating a bottleneck, I'll never know.) That's only
one illustration. Where I sit, KDE suits me.
Then again, I'm not using KDE 4.0. I'm using 4.3, AFAIK. Maybe now
they've killed the bugs.
Temlakos