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No surprise here:

https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/mx-19-2-kde.html

No idea how he could complain about how hard it is to find out how to get it, with the "Download" button staring him in the face at the top...

No surprise at all. I knew from the start Dedo would pan an older release of KDE. Complaining about the font size and colors in konsole seems to me to be a very minor point. I found the fonts too small as well. Easily changed.

Opinions are like .... everyone has one.

I kinda think he answers his own question if he should stop doing reviews.
The answer is YES, they have become very opinionated, unrealistic, and uninformative.

Then again we probably should have added Plank to the default desktop and then we'd get a 90 page review of how great it was.

But its a good thing we made this version for our users and just not one person.

And why exactly do we care and promote this reviewer? I didn't like him when he liked MX...

We care because 1) he has typically provided thoughtful critique, not just criticism; 2) he has early and often reviewed MX.

Not sure how we promote him--I posted this because it is the first actual review that I have seen.

We care

I never cared what this dudemedo had to say.

he has typically provided thoughtful critique, not just criticism

In this cause: "I decided to cut this review short" doesn't sound like thoughtful critique, it's just that he doesn't like KDE version in Debian Buster. But we already know that, MX KDE is not for people running for after new shiny objects (they can use Arch or Neon or something else as he pointed out). He should not have started a review in the first place, if somebody would have asked for his opinion he could have just said "I'm not even considering running or reviewing KDE from Buster" and leave it to that. That's not really about MX, it's about him.

For me Dedoimedo reviews towards KDE is more professional way and as per a users view, His reviews on MX xfce has always appreciated, rewarding and even he nominated MX the best xfce distro of 2019.

Adrian wrote: Thu Sep 10, 2020 12:08 pmMX KDE is not for people running for after new shiny objects (they can use Arch or Neor or something else as he pointed out).

Makes sense. But he'd probably say that you should have used Plasma 5.12 then, because that's a LTS release. But I suppose this is a bit difficult when you're based on Debian.

SwampRabbit wrote: Thu Sep 10, 2020 11:47 am Opinions are like .... everyone has one.

for example from the review

There are already way too many distros, distro spins and distro editions out there. Roughly 90% too many.

That is an opinion repeated over and over by him in his reviews and at the security forum he's a member of, and by others.
That's all it is - an opinion.
How tiring to have opinions stated as Absolute Truth.

tony37 wrote: Thu Sep 10, 2020 12:19 pm

Adrian wrote: Thu Sep 10, 2020 12:08 pmMX KDE is not for people running for after new shiny objects (they can use Arch or Neor or something else as he pointed out).

Makes sense. But he'd probably say that you should have used Plasma 5.12 then, because that's a LTS release. But I suppose this is a bit difficult when you're based on Debian.

We of course considered that, but there are Qt library problems. From what I've heard from packagers we'd have to have KDE on different Qt library then the rest of Debian Buster applications. We don't subject our users to breakage just to have a higher version number. Also, this is a first release and more of a proof of concept (also to gauge the interest), we can make other decisions for MX-20, this was supposed to be up to par release (although delayed) with MX-19.2 Xfce.