On Monday 26 January 2009 17:02:05 n j wrote: > Linus Torvalds on KDE4... > > [quote] > > A: I used to be a KDE user. I thought KDE 4.0 was such a disaster I > switched to GNOME. I hate the fact that my right button doesn't do > what I want it to do. But the whole "break everything" model is > painful for users and they can choose to use something else. > > I realise the reason for the 4.0 release, but I think they did it > badly. They did so many changes it was a half-baked release. It may > turn out to be the right decision in the end and I will re-try KDE, > but I suspect I'm not the only person they lost.
I've seen it suggested that KDE4 is faster than KDE3. I'm running FreeBSD 7.0 - granted, my machine is not brand-new: it's a P4 1.8GHz with 512MB of RAM and an NVidia GeForce MX4000 (I mention the graphics card because the latest NVidia binary driver doesn't support it). KDE3.5 does what I want my window manager to do - keeps out of my way and works snappily enough that I don't notice it. I recently installed PCBSD7.02, which uses KDE4.1. It's unusable. For example, with only two applications running - the KBreakout game and the Psi Jabber/XMPP client - the game was unplayable because each time Psi received an incoming chat or event, the game froze for a second or two while KDE struggled to open the chat window. The claim that KDE4 is faster than KDE3 is frankly incredible to me. Jonathan _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"