[redmajor12]

They traded user experience for developer egos. Ego is the equivalent of wealth in the OSS world, just as it is in academia. KDE 4 developers had some grand ideas to push on the world, such as the semantic web, regardless of whether or not their users cared for them.

[wkat4242]

Yeah just like gnome 3 with its grand ideas that's now more barebones in terms of configurability than macOS.

[1oooqooq]

to be fair, gnome3 unwritten moto was "we macos now", so, mission accomplished?

[wkat4242]

IMO they're worse than macOS now. But yeah this is why gnome 3 is absolutely not for me and I'll never support it as Linux' single recommended desktop.

[dingnuts]

it's been almost twenty years since KDE 4 came out. it was terrible, yes. but Plasma 6, which was released this decade, kicks ass, so why are you so mad, Grandpa?

[1oooqooq]

because gramps had to suffer gnome or the tiling wm du jour while kde was fixing itself.

and if you think we were exaggerating in how bad our school route was, get ready for this one...