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Originally posted by droste View PostYou should have done it the other way around (wait 2 years then use it). KDE is way more stable than 2 years ago. It is true that there might be bugs (I can see none in the stuff I'm using), but that doesn't mean it's unusable.
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Originally posted by orzel View PostThis is the KDE favorite answer : "you're too dumb to know how to compute memory usage while we are very smart, hence KDE is not bloatware". I dont have time to provide details (again) on the methodology.
Originally posted by a user View Postso they fixed the bad coding and bad design (codewise) they had in the previous 10 years now in the last two years?
Originally posted by cardboard View PostSo much Works For Me? going on in this thread.
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Originally posted by droste View PostI didn't say anything about how things are done, but how things are feel when using it. It feels very stable now.
It was clearly stated in may first post, that it is my personal experience and I just wanted to say that there are actually people using it without problems.
I'd like to know how a stable KDE (edition) is. :-) Which distro and KDE edition do you use?
I like some of the features, don't like others but the bottom line, is every distro that I've used it with has had serious crashes/freezes. I tried to pinpoint to certain software or was told to check hardware but most of it was declared okay.
I think it could just be using too many tabs or apps in Iceweasel/Firefox (I have been using KDE with Debian and Debian variants) but it even feels a bit unstable with other apps as well.
I am wondering if it is bloated since some people think it is whereas others think it's improving. I'm not sure how it could be both.
I agree with the previous comment that all the DEs have major issues. I guess that is why so many people are trying them all out now, it seems. DE hopping...
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Originally posted by Panix View PostI'd like to know how a stable KDE (edition) is. :-) Which distro and KDE edition do you use?
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Originally posted by Panix View PostKDE is a mess. I get constant crashes regardless of distro and oftenOriginally posted by Panix View PostI don't like the features and tools of XFCE as much but at least there's way less crashes with XFCE.Originally posted by Panix View PostGnome 3 does the same. However, I don't recall as many crashes but I only used it brieflyOriginally posted by Panix View Postthe bottom line, is every distro that I've used it with has had serious crashes/freezes.
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Well, reading this thread makes me wonder. Maybe it's actually the distributions who are messing up KDE so that it crashes.
I'm running Arch and KDE, and, in all honesty, never experienced a single crash since the day I'm using KDE.
I thinks it's because Arch doesn't modify KDE to the extent other distributions do, though I of course don't have a proof for that.
Or maybe I'm just extremely lucky.
Whatever, KDE always worked best for me, and I'm really longin for the Kwin improvements in 4.10
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Originally posted by BitRot View PostWell, reading this thread makes me wonder. Maybe it's actually the distributions who are messing up KDE so that it crashes.
I'm running Arch and KDE, and, in all honesty, never experienced a single crash since the day I'm using KDE.
I thinks it's because Arch doesn't modify KDE to the extent other distributions do, though I of course don't have a proof for that.
Or maybe I'm just extremely lucky.
Whatever, KDE always worked best for me, and I'm really longin for the Kwin improvements in 4.10
Actually, i think it's the contrary : distribution sometimes manages to fix/enhance/hide KDE mess. The most obvious is SuSE i guess. But it costs a lot of manpower to do the QA that KDE fails to do.
You're probably lucky and have very big hardware ressources dedicated to the sole desktop environment (arguably, hard to mesure).
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Originally posted by orzel View PostI dont think it's distribution's fault. I've also used KDE from svn/git or from (mostly unmodified) gentoo packages, and it was the same.
Actually, i think it's the contrary : distribution sometimes manages to fix/enhance/hide KDE mess. The most obvious is SuSE i guess. But it costs a lot of manpower to do the QA that KDE fails to do.
You're probably lucky and have very big hardware ressources dedicated to the sole desktop environment (arguably, hard to mesure).
The only hardware requirement is (I think) working opengl driver. My old core2duo 1.6 GHz run KDE nicely. The only time I have a little to much processor activity is the initial indexing of my hard drive with strigi the first time after I set up the indexing.
Strigi is by the way, supposed to be replaced by some sort of nepomuk based indexer in kde 4.10 (according to a recent blog post).
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