| I am a KDE user for 10 years now and I can't emphasize enough how annoyed I am about this. Every major release breaks something.
And it takes months and years for seemingly basic things to come back, if they come back at all. For example Shift+Del for files on the desktop https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344969 . Right now I am especially pissed about the state of multi-monitor support for my Thinkpad + docking station. It is completely broken since KDE 5.
I can't undock, dock, suspend + combinations without everything crashing. (That means I can't carry my laptop around the office.)
KDE also has troubles arranging the desktops, keeping task bars on the correct monitor, or starting the desktop correctly at all.
The middle mouse button of the external keyboard doesn't work after suspend.
If I have two external monitors the frame rate drops significantly and I get screen tearing while moving windows around (Not sure whose fault that is. Maybe graphics drivers.)
Etc. :( I know, open source, payment, free time. You can't really blame anyone for this.
The incentives and accountability, like for commercial products, aren't there. With Microsoft's wish to be more like Google and the new telemetry features, I am either looking for a Mac next time or at least move to Gnome or Unity. What also sucks is that these issues lead to me only using a small subset of programs like console, browser and gimp (no fancy editor, no mail client) to avoid anything important I use breaking. |