A few words about the Quality of KDE 4.2

[Jerry Houston]

Samuel Kage wrote:
> If I read the reponses in this thread I imagine the same. Sadly!
> I dont' know why it is so hard for some people to be honest to themself and 
> see that Kde is really great but has just to many bugs. 
> I've seen many people trying out linux, but resigning because of things that 
> just don't work. For sure its no option for them to write bug reports and wait 
> until it is fixed. So the only logical consequence to attract users is to make 
> sure, that when a software is released, there is no need to write bug reports 
> because ALL main things just work.
>   
Sadly, I need to agree with you.  I have two laptops, two client desktop 
workstations and a server here at home, and all at one time were running 
SuSE Linux.  Now, because of reliability issues, only one client 
workstation and the server are running Linux.  Once I can find the time 
to migrate the workstation to XP-Pro without losing email and such, 
we'll be down to just the server running Linux.

That's because I can't afford to administer a home domain with Server 
2008, and we DO find it convenient to share resources among our 
computers.  And I don't like to reboot a server every time Microsoft 
releases a update - it's not a big issue with a workstation.

I'm not going to reiterate all the problems I've had - I doubt I've had 
any that haven't been reported already.  The cumulative effect is simply 
this: I don't enjoy using Linux nearly as much as I used to, and the 
plain truth is, I don't have to. 

Thunderbird and Firefox run just fine on Windows, as does FileZilla and 
just about everything else I could want.  There is plenty of good 
open-source software for Windows as well.  Linux - to me, anyway - just 
doesn't offer the advantages that it once did.  Maybe Windows (with the 
exception of Vista) is just getting better?  Dunno.
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