kde4 never ceases to delight me.

[tschommer]

I sympathize with those people who have a harder time due to hardware issues, or needed programs not working correctly.

Oh yeah, I can understand those having issues like with hardware or missing applications like KMyMoney. Heck, I still keep Windows XP just for the sake of being able to use my tax return program (I'm in Germany)! But then again, I found the flame wars that used to be KDE/Gnome have shifted to KDE3/KDE4 in many forums.

We're definitely a strange species...         

[Maurice]

I have 3 versions of Minime2009, two still with kde3.5 and one with kde4. I have been using the kde4 for the past two months or so and also, like you all, am completely taken with it. I rarely use kde3.5 any more.

If PCLos puts the fun back into computing then kde4 is the icing on the top. It is a delight to use, especially with the new stuff coming on every other update.

Don't hesitate, you fence-sitters. Upgrade now.

[OldJimbo]

I still keep Windows XP just for the sake of being able to use my tax return program (I'm in Germany)!

I used to have troubles with that, too, since tax programs never run under wine because of all the copy protection. Here in Canada, though, I got an offer to try an online tax program. I had some troubles at first, but finally was able to get a browser to show itself as IE. Obviously when the company emailed me asking for comments I had suggestions! But for years now things have worked perfectly - and due to special offers through my bank, I get a tax program for around $10.
Here we either generate or download a generated tax file to a hard drive, then go to the government site, log in with a special filing number and then can upload our tax e"file". We can even pay any extra money we owe by direct bank online payment.
Last year the whole process took me well under 30mins.

On every major change since .92 (which is the earliest I started using this distro as primary) I've been skeptical about changes. But that was because I had set things up the way I wanted, and knew the applications. Earlier I'd keep both versions on their own partitions - so I got to compare things. I'd have to say that after a month, I'd bring everything off the old partition and delete it.

But then again, I found the flame wars that used to be KDE/Gnome have shifted to KDE3/KDE4 in many forums.

I too was shocked yesterday to see my favorite K apps gone - and after learning how to use them so well and fast! All this change! Well like many others I started with Linux seriously by having a main boot into Xandros. I found its design elegant and well thought out. Updates were very conservative so it was also extremely stable. That time frame, though, was one of huge change in Linux apps. So we'd try to do a work around to install new apps and hose the system. Gradually I found that it wasn't my primary boot any more..
I think that we've got a good implementation of KDE4 - as I said, I had run other distros using it, and wasn't impressed. I was impressed yesterday, even though it was like shutting down an XP machine (small icons and all effects minimized) and starting a Mac. Some things are going to annoy us - but mostly because they'll lead us to make mistakes. so for example the archiver in Dolphin extracts what it can, and shows a small warning, which can get minimized with many windows open. So it pays to watch all "default" stuff closely.

[malc]

I'm with the Jaydot on this. I have no problems with KDE4. Sure a few things has shuffled around but I can do everything with KDE4 I used to do with 3.5.  I prefer Dolphin to Konqueror! Oh my god shoot me    I especially like the F3 key......

[Rudge]

I'm with the Jaydot on this. I have no problems with KDE4. Sure a few things has shuffled around but I can do everything with KDE4 I used to do with 3.5.  I prefer Dolphin to Konqueror! Oh my god shoot me    I especially like the F3 key......

We might both get shot, I prefer it as well. 

[T6]

"kde4 never ceases to delight me."

same here 

[davey]

I've been playing with 4 on a spare partition for a while now, after getting bad first impressions from the early versions. My working os is still the 3.5 one, and I've always been happy with it. After messing with the 4 partition the other day, I suddenly started noticing how, well, dull the 3.5 system seemed. It's kind of addicting, not unlike what happens when you get a DVR and expecting to just be a VCR with more minutes of storage. I don't really want to go through populating, configuring, and tweaking the spare PCLOS, so it looks like I'll be taking the all-out KDE4 plunge very soon. The thing really does seem to put the fun back in computers -- and that's even with most of the 3D goodies turned off because of only a half meg of ram.

[Maurice]

I'm with the Jaydot on this. I have no problems with KDE4. Sure a few things has shuffled around but I can do everything with KDE4 I used to do with 3.5.  I prefer Dolphin to Konqueror! Oh my god shoot me    I especially like the F3 key......

We might both get shot, I prefer it as well.  

What's with this f3 key then?  All it does with me is take me to the next desktop. And that's all.   Hardly worth getting shot for.

I have 6 desktops and have two screen edges at each side to get them all on a grid. Or I use alt-tab to flick through them. Also just found out that I can drag one program to another desktop by grabbing its top edge and sliding it across. Or - have it straddling two desktops.

With kde4 you learn something new every day. And if things go a bit haywire at times, as they do, it's usually easy to get things back to normal. Plus you learn something new in the process. Marvellous.

[Rudge]

in Dolphin, f3 splits the screen.
I don't guess I would get shot over it. but it's cool.

[Maurice]

in Dolphin, f3 splits the screen.

Thanks rudge. Got it. Another something new.

[Archie]

I guess I am one of the lucky ones that didn't have any major issue with my migration to KDE4, and over half-a-year later, I am still pleased with it. Glad to know it's delightful to you, j.

[T6]

i only had one real problem, partial update 

3 months enjoying the new design of kde4

[MGBguy]

in Dolphin, f3 splits the screen.
I don't guess I would get shot over it. but it's cool.

Thanks! I scan a lot of threads, and I learn a lot about KDE4 and other stuff! These are all gems!

You're doin' a lot of good rudge!

[Rudge]

in Dolphin, f3 splits the screen.
I don't guess I would get shot over it. but it's cool.

Thanks! I scan a lot of threads, and I learn a lot about KDE4 and other stuff! These are all gems!

You're doin' a lot of good rudge!

Thanks MG. Mostly I just feel like an idiot! 

[Psychonator]

I've been workin with PCLOS since 07, off and on. Been dealing with 2009.1 kde3 lately, and a friend of mine has been talkin bout kde4 for a while. I put it off thinkin i have it all like i want it, and "if it ain't broke don't fix it." I finally dove in and installed kde4 a couple days ago, and OMG. Thanx to the build crews. After staying up far too many hours playing with my new toy i sent my buddy an im sayin "WOW!!! this is different!" His response, "ya think?
kde4 is really amazing, and yes i have faced a few glitches, mostly caused by user error, not software error. having fun though, and it seems very stable so far, a lil slower, but tolerable.

Thanx again.