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I prefer KDE4 to KDE 3.5. A lot. Why?:

1. It is technically a sound platform, nothing like the spaghetti code that made up KDE 3.5. Look at the rapid developments in KDE4 as opposed to KDE3. That is only possible because of a clean code base.

2. It runs on the same hardware as KDE 3.5, and it makes better use of more powerful graphics hardware (compositing, desktop effects). Again: with the regular settings, KDE4 is JUST AS FAST as KDE 3.5.

3. It NEVER crashes on me. EVER.

4. KDE4 has a lot better features. Better powermanagement. in 4.4 dual monitor support is excellent using a newer Xorg. Much better sound management. Hot plugging of USB sound devices is great.

5. The widgets allow me to tweak my desktop a lot better than KDE 3.5. E.g. I can easily change the menu to Lancelot.

6. Notification system is the best I've seen.

I may be one of the few around here who has never even SEEN KDE 4. My desktop is still running SM 7 flawlessly and does everything I throw at it. My only wish is that WINE would work better for the two or three Windows programs I occasionally use.

My laptop is happily running SM 8 and is quite snappy.

Perhaps I should install SM 8.5 on a spare partition and play around a little to see what all the fuss is about.

Pastor Ron wrote:I may be one of the few around here who has never even SEEN KDE 4. My desktop is still running SM 7 flawlessly and does everything I throw at it. My only wish is that WINE would work better for the two or three Windows programs I occasionally use.

My laptop is happily running SM 8 and is quite snappy.

Perhaps I should install SM 8.5 on a spare partition and play around a little to see what all the fuss is about.

Sure give it a try. You may or may not like it, but worth looking at.

PS. (I like it very much.

As much as I still like KDE 3.5x, I prefer and run KDE 4 most of the time. There still a little glitch or two that occurs occasionally (like KDE Screensavers), but nothing too serious. I did a clean install of Mepis 8.5 a little while back. The first time was a disaster. It must have been something I did wrong, because I tried it again the next day, and it was the easiest and cleanest I ever attempted.

I am very impressed with KDE 4.3. Dolphin, Konsole splits, the dark Air wallpaper and even the Lancelot menu are some examples.

re my post on 6-3-10:

I was answering the Poll question "Happy with KDE 4 or not?.


As of that date, my opinion was based on experiences with the releases I tried during 2008 and into 2010: three kubuntu's, three sidux's, one pureOS-2010-en, Fedora 10, Mandriva-One-2009 Spring, and Mepis of course. I was using several machines, all x86 types, 32 bit; PIII, P4, Athlon; 1.1 to 1.7 GHz; 384 to 512 M ram. Mepis 8.0x with KDE 3.5.x shined on all of them. The various KDE 4.x versions showed a variety of, ahem, deficiencies in my opinion, except Mepis 8.5x.




richb, your response to me seems to be based on Mepis 8.5x, and not on KDE 4 generically, is that so?


If so, I guess there is a misunderstanding here.


But I still prefer Mepis 8.015, for now. Why? It does take up less ram. It does have features and choices that I like and KDE 4.x does not provide for now (or I cannot find).
On the other hand, Mepis 8.5x does offer other features and choices, and chances are high that KDE 3.5.x ain't never gonna get them. And I’m certainly glad to read others experiences, very encouraging.

drg,

Well yes and no. They are based on the KDE 4.3.4 implemented in Mepis 8.5, but the features are standard KDE 4 features that I was referring to and not the added Mepis tools which are completely different.

Of course separating the feel of Mepis and KDE 4 is as it is so well integrated is not easy. The impressions will overlap. Hope that makes sense.

I love kde 4 just for all the new packages. K3b is one example....it's more advanced looking and feeling than any previous version...as all the new package versions look now

Edit.....
I wrote this post in july...it's now october and i have decided that kde4 is slower than kde3, unstable compared to kde3, digikam and dolphin are both superslow at downloading pictures from my camera ( and I mean glacially slow, the batteries will dies before you get a dozen pictures downloaded. Like 3-5 minutes per picture maybe more) I would like to change my vote to NO as I like kde3 a lot better

mepnoob2005 wrote:I love kde 4 just for all the new packages. K3b is one example....it's more advanced looking and feeling than any previous version...as all the new package versions look now

Good point, that I do not believe has been mentioned here before.

mepnoob2005 wrote:I love kde 4 just for all the new packages. K3b is one example....it's more advanced looking and feeling than any previous version...as all the new package versions look now

I would expect that the majority on Linux users, myself included, were perhaps more concerned with functionality however.

Chris