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by pjmlp 4286 days ago
KDE suffered in the beginning by being the C++ developers desktop, using a library with a license that many in the FOSS world didn't agree with.

This was sorted out eventually, but the distributions that had KDE as main desktop (Mandrake, SuSE,...) are mostly gone.
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zanny 4286 days ago
OpenSUSE still exists. It is a pretty beast KDE desktop. There is a lot of effort around Netrunner / Manjaro / Chakra to make some good KDE desktop based on Arch, but that has never come to fruition mostly in my mind due to NIH and no pooled effort.

And Kubuntu is still solid and stable. If I were pushing Linux in an office environment, 14.04 LTS Kubuntu would almost certainly be my pick for its stability.

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pjmlp 4286 days ago
OpenSUSE has lost its place among many GNU/Linux fans since their agreement with Microsoft.

In Germany, once the home of SuSE, nowadays you get to see very few installations.

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