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by btreecat 45 days ago
All KDE before 5 is buggy, slow, unstable, ugly, and generally unpleasant to use.

I remember running KDE3 and it consumed too much ram for too little stability. Much worse desktop experience than today.
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anthk 44 days ago
It depended on the release. KDE 3.5.10 from Debian Sarge's backports was rock solid and more stable than several others. Ditto with SuSE, which had a golden stability. Red Hat was a disaster.
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ahartmetz 44 days ago
SuSE employed several KDE developers at the time while Red Hat employed many Gnome developers. In fact, Gnome was inofficially a Red Hat project back then.
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