Is KDE ready for the Desktop?
There are countless articles and questions in forums about whether linux is ready for the corporate desktop and a couple of years ago I was one of those ardent supporters who would have said a resounding YES!
Now, however, not only am I not sure but I would say a resounding NO! More than that, after more than 10 years of running SuSE linux and KDE I am just about to migrate back to Windows.
Why Migrate to Windows?
Shudder at the thought, yes – go ahead! But linux and KDE4 has become so unstable that, from a commercial perspective, I cannot afford the time any more. Busy making a living anyway, I cannot give the hours and hours that it demands just to get it to work! Also, given that I run a quad-core, 4Gb RAM machine which struggles even with file manager, playing music or, dread the thought, of watching a DVD – what choice do I have?
Other Linux flavours …
Yes, there are some great looking other distro’s out there … OpenGEU, Xubuntu etc … but they all need time to install and settle in. What email packages do they support and how do I transfer my existing kmail, what photo browsers, what graphics packages etc… So, migrate to windows and then play with some other distro’s on an old laptop.
Sorry KDE4 …
But you’ve just lost another customer … Rats off a proverbial sinking ship, it seems to me…
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