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KDE Plasma 5.3 Released
jrepin writes: The KDE community has released Plasma 5.3, a major new version of the popular, open source desktop environment. The latest release brings much enhanced power management, better support for Bluetooth, and improved Plasma widgets. Also available is a technical preview of Plasma Media Center shell. In addition, Plasma 5.3 represents a big step towards support for the Wayland windowing system. There are also a few other minor tweaks and over 300 bugfixes. Here is the full changelog, and here's the package download wiki page.
KDE has great aesthetics. Its UI is very usable, unlike the hipster monstrosities known as GNOME 3 and Unity. The KDE devs are smart, and know that throwing away decades of acquired knowledge and experience is a dumb idea. They don't change the KDE UI in stupid ways every week just to be trendy or to try to support every single possible screen size and form factor with just a single UI. The best software UIs are always the ones with the fewest, or even no, hipsters involved. These UIs are actually sensible and usable because they aren't riddled with the idiotic misconceptions about usability that hipster "user experience experts" believe.
Something tells me that they didn't attempt any kind of selection bias, when Slackware outnumbers Fedora by like 5 to 1, and is on par with both Ubuntu and Mint. Also, they take various customizations of Gnome3 and break them out of "Gnome Shell", which makes it look like Gnome Shell has 1/3 of it's actual use.