Slashdot asked if KDE is dying. I think so.
I haven’t really dug KDE since 3.5. I don’t much like Plasma 5. I haven’t upgraded from openSUSE 13.2 to openSUSE Leap yet because of it.
I like this guys comments.
Ask Slashdot: Is KDE Dying?
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i’m on linux desktops just rarely, so maybe i’ve not the right personal experience to comment on this,
but i think it’all a matter of opinions more than facts.
Unless a GUI is so malfuctioning that it actually prevents a work to get done, i think it’s 99% only a matter of getting used to it.
Of course it perfectly makes sense that each user has her/his own preferences and that there might be GUIs that ‘score’ worse than others realatively to some suppsedly objective usability criteria, but i think considering a solid and wide project like KDE dead or deserving to die just because some people don’t like it, even if such people was the most part of linux desktops users, it is a big and unjustified leap.
Moreover, from a technical point of view, KDE is likely to be, among the linux desktops, the one with the most solid foundations since it is based on the Qt framework, which is still sensibly growning in terms of functionalities, performance optimizations and availability on many different platforms despite not being a young framework but a reliable major player in the filed since many years already (as a side note, Ubuntu’s Unity 8.x will be Qt based as well).
I Think KDE, as any software project, will die only when its development will be no more actually active, despite the directions it is taking and its popularity.
All that being said, should KDE disappear right now, that would not affect me at all except maybe for the disappearing a source of an on average good ‘code samples’, so i hope i won’t be considered a bias-ed KDE fan for this comment.