Fwd: Kudos for KDE4 :-)

[Aaron J. Seigo]

this belongs to all of you, not just me.

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Subject: Kudos for KDE4 :-)
Date: Saturday 05 July 2008
From: Andreas ******* <*******************>
To: "Aaron J.Seigo" <aseigo at kde.org>

Hi Aaron,


I read the whole "fork KDE" rubbish and felt that it was time to cheer you KDE 
developers a little bit up by telling you my point of view with KDE4.


I migrated from Windows to Linux about 3,5 years ago. Since I am an IT 
professional, I loved the endless possibilities, I was given with Linux.
The decision for KDE as desktop was no real decision; I saw some collegues 
using it and I liked what I saw. Ever since, Gnome was no real choice for me 
because I know KDE inside out now and can tweak just everything the way I 
like.


When the first rumors arrived about the upcoming KDE4, I was pretty happy and 
looking forward to it: The plasma concept just seemed awesome for me. I wanted 
to help testing and installed what was usable of KDE4 as alternative desktop 
to make some early experiences.


To be honest, I was pretty concerned about the state of  KDE4.0 in the early 
release candidates, way too many bugs and (compared to KDE3) way to few 
features. I could not even work for 10 minutes without a serious crash which 
screwed up the whole desktop. From there on, I had the bad feeling that the 
step KDE4 had taken was maybe a little bit too ambitious.


I turned away from KDE4 but I just could not let my fingers from it - it was 
just so damn SEXY. I liked the look'n'feel which brought my freqently back to 
KDE4. When openSUSE 11 was released with KDE 4.0.4, I completely switched from 
KDE3 to KDE4 and was using the factory packages from now on.


And I have not regret it: Several weeks later, the 4.1 beta 2 has 
matured in a breathtaking speed: I use it for 3 weeks now (starting from beta 
1) and it's fast, pretty stable and has a great joy of use. The developers 
have done (and are still doing) an amazing job. Two thumbs up! :-) I am 
awestrucked what you developers achieved with the current releases. KDE4 is 
simply the most modern (not just in terms of availability but in terms of 
concepts) desktop nowadays. It is simple for my not-so-PC-focussed wife, it is 
powerful for me old geek. Additionally, it is the most beautiful desktop and 
has even gotten ahead of Mac OS X Leopard and Windows Vista. Boy, that's 
amazing!


Sure, this mail has no real point. But when I read all the destructive critics 
about KDE4, I felt you guys need some honest critics and some tribtue to what 
you have achieved. And I am pretty sure, there are plenty more users out there 
who think exactly the same as I do but just make the failure to not tell you 
:-)


Kudos, Aaaron, Kudos!


Greets,
Andreas


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