Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 22:45:10 -0600 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20081102044510.GD2112@kokopelli.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20081101160415.GB14218@rebelion.Sisis.de> References: <490C0159.3000908@rawbw.com> <20081101163322.B10508@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081101160415.GB14218@rebelion.Sisis.de>
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--PHCdUe6m4AxPMzOu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 05:04:15PM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El d=EDa Saturday, November 01, 2008 a las 04:34:38PM +0100, Wojciech Puc= har escribi=F3: > >=20 > > the question should be "Is KDE usable at all on any OS?" > > the answer is no, it's crappy imitation of windoze. > >=20 > > If someone needs windoze like soft, just buy windows vista. > >=20 > > For someone who need unix, FreeBSD is a good choice. >=20 > I disagree concerning "KDE && windoze"; I'm using KDE 3.5.8 and it is a v= ery > good and stable desktop, even for kernel folks and hackers; I run it > with FreeBSD 7.0R on my daily work laptop; My impression, over the last few years, is that the above description is backwards. MS Windows seems to be emulating KDE, rather than the other way around. Vista looked surprisingly like KDE3 when it made it into the public eye, and the rumor now is that the 7 pre-beta looks surprisingly like KDE4. As such, KDE appears to be an excellent choice for a gentle transition from MS Windows to the Unixy world -- and it may provide a better experience overall. Still . . . KDE isn't for me. Besides all that, this thread was spawned by reference to KDE4, which is significantly different in behavior than KDE3 in some insidious ways. As such, I'm not sure one's experience with KDE3 is the best litmus for whether KDE4 is or will be a good choice. --=20 Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Bill McKibben: "The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield." --PHCdUe6m4AxPMzOu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkkNMFYACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKVmOACeNddCIkIPmRoz9LraCn9ejnAF nz0AoJsfMxY5+rMxOBRu7ckFDXT67B6H =mFdM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PHCdUe6m4AxPMzOu--
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