Is KDE really usable?

[Lex Hider]

On Monday 23 October 2006 02:33, Iñaki wrote:
> Hello, first of all I'm sorry for the severity of the critic I will do to
> the whole KDE in this mail.
>
> In my work all the people are 24-27 years old guys with a lot of experience
> in Linux systems. All of them use Ubuntu except me, I use Kubuntu Dapper.
>
> I started working here 6 months ago and most of the people in the office
> like the "power" of KDE I show to them, for example:
>  - Kioslaves
>  - Konqueror with the window splited in 6 parts.
>  - Applications as Kontact, Kompare, yakuake
>  - Kate and its sessions and syntax.
>
> So those days two persons in the office have installed Kubuntu Dapper in
> their work computers to use it instead of Gnome. Both of them came back to
> Ubuntu yesterday and hate KDE now. It's sad to admit it, but I understand
> them.
>
> I'd like to clarify that I'm speaking about two boys working for long time
> in Linux systems, so I'm not speaking about newbies. Anyway they need a
> good Linux desktop to work in an efficient way. Is it possible with KDE? I
> dont thing so.
>
> I'll related now all the problems occurred to one of them the day he
> installed Kubuntu Dapper and tried to use it for working:
>

Thanks for the feed back. The most appropriate action to take is to file bugs 
for the problems that you find with KDE. Also, we can always need more help, 
so we'd love to see more contributors in general.

Cheers,

Lex.