KDE Software Compilation 4.10 RC1 Released
jrepin writes "Today KDE released the first release candidate for its renewed Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. Thanks to the feedback from the betas, KDE already improved the quality noticeably. Further polishing new and old functionality will lead to a rock-stable, fast and beautiful release in January, 2013. One particular change in this RC is an updated look to Plasma workspaces."
It's been a while, 3 years to be exact, since I last touched KDE. Has it improved in any measurable way at all? Is it worth a re-try? What will I find exciting? I am inclined to think, "nothing at all!"
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04. I tried Unity (for a few weeks to let it seep in), and really didn't get it, so I installed Gnome 3. It has it's flaws, many of which are solved by extensions. Recently I got sick of some of the limitations and decided to try KDE. An apt-get install kde-desktop later, and I can. Except that it seems to be incredibly unstable. I'd already installed some games (Konquest, Ksirk, etc.) and these also seemed to be buggy. E.g. go to the about menu and it crashes...
Well, KDE is buggy (at least on Ubuntu). I tried one of those widgets, the bouncing ball. It froze up my entire screen. And my computer is new (with an i7 CPU with loads of RAM). What with that and some other problems (I can't just recall) I gave up on KDE and went back to Gnome 3. Pity, Gnome 3 is limited as I said.
And if Debian just worked with my wireless, sound and touchscreen out of the box, I would use it instead. But it doesn't. Ubuntu does.
HELP MY ACCOUNT HAS BEEN HACKED BY AN ILLIBERAL ART STUDENT SET TO DESTROY THE INTERWEBZ!
is the most interesting DE out of the FOSS choices. Enlightenment would be a close second. KDE has everything but the kitchen sink, and it has Kate, a rocking text editor as well as well as K3B, likely the best burning software in FOSS.
Kudos to KDE!
I love the 4.8 (including Dolphin FM & Amarok, can't live without it), looking forward to this! Definitely 100x better than Gnome3/2/Unity!
It seems to me that the KDE team with its efforts on continuous integration and testing takes the long road towards rock-stability.
KDE obsoletes GNOME
Isn't this a dupe? They already released 4.1 years ago.
Did anyone else read the title as KDE Software Complication 4.10 RC1?
Only dumb birds land downwind.