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by UI_at_80x24 2318 days ago
Every time there is a new KDE announcement/release I give it another try. I don't like it. I miss the KDE 3.5 days. The DE seemed more cohesive then and worked very well. Ever since they went down the plasma route it looks like they focused on making it look pretty. The whitepapers and announcements made it sound like there was hefty backend improvements but each update was buggy for me.

I still use KDE apps, I find that a lot of them are perfect; but the DE has been limping along since the 4.0 re-write.

Rant: Why the fuck would I ever use a DE "app-store-thing"?! I use my OS's tools for installing/upgrading/uninstalling programs. Stop trying to help, you are making it worse.

Side note: I really liked the music in that video.
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ognarb 2318 days ago
> Rant: Why the fuck would I ever use a DE "app-store-thing"?! I use my OS's tools for installing/upgrading/uninstalling programs. Stop trying to help, you are making it worse.

The DE "app-store-thing" is a front end to packageKit and packageKit is a front end to your package manager.

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ohithereyou 2318 days ago
On some distros there is an additional software store that connects into Snap[0], so they're technically not distro supplied packages.

[0] https://snapcraft.io/

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DCKing 2318 days ago
> Rant: Why the fuck would I ever use a DE "app-store-thing"?! I use my OS's tools for installing/upgrading/uninstalling programs. Stop trying to help, you are making it worse.

They're sure as hell not making it worse for regular people that manage software using graphical interfaces. The world doesn't revolve around power users.

Even then - I consider myself a power user, and I enjoy using Gnome's equivalent from time to time. I might be a power user, but I like pictures and discoverability. This might be a shock to some, I'm sorry.

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ohithereyou 2318 days ago
Have you tried Trinity Desktop Environment[0], a continuation of KDE 3.5?

[0] https://www.trinitydesktop.org/

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UI_at_80x24 2318 days ago
No I haven't! Thanks for the link.
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slightwinder 2318 days ago
Yeah, mee too. With KDE 3.x there where many people which were eager in improving abilities and workflows of KDE. With KDE this somehow changed, the focus switched to other things, many people seems to have left and today there seems to be a different spirit remaining in the project. Even today, a decade later I don't get the impression that KDE ever moved beyond what it once was and promised. Kind of a shame as there are still many people doing good work there.
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diffeomorphism 2318 days ago
It is not a DE "app-store-thing" it is just a pretty GUI for your OS's tools.
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