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by appelza 3535 days ago
Not really. KDE1 was not meant as a low resource application, and it's probably slower than KDE5 in fact.
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KDE 1.0 was release in 1998, almost two decades ago. Even a decade old machine low-end machine is scifi-high-end by 1998 standards.

That being said, it may be impractical to browse the modern web with KHTML 1.0 (from which webkit was forked by Apple, hence it being a remote ancestor also for current Safari and Chrome!).

No body forbid you of running Firefox/Chrome on KDE 1
Worked really well on a 486 or an K6-2 . I don't get your point that would be slower that KDE 5.
Guys, is FAST as hell, and the screenshot was taken from inside KDE 1 using a PLasma 5 application, so in general sparse term, is usable. I will make it totally usable in next weeks tough, as i didn't have time to port 100 %.