Originally posted by gilboa
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I can't speak speak for KDE, but even point releases of GNOME 3 frustrated me immensely. After carefully picking a theme that agreed with me, and configuring a set of plugins that work well, the next point release came around and broke half of them. (I can't imagine how frustrating it would be for theme/plugin developers.) It reminds me of the early days of Firefox, where add-ons would break a lot per release: those days are over because the platform stabilized, and I have no doubt that GNOME 3 will get there and be awesome. But, for now, I feel like using GNOME 3 puts me in the position of being an "early adopter" (if not a beta tester), and I ... really have work to do. I am very happy to contribute to free software (there are lots of packages I maintain) but I do want something consistent and reliable for my daily work. It's cool if you like cutting edge! I tried it, and didn't like it.
So, yeah, "breaks every 6 months" for GNOME 3 is exactly my experience. I'm not a "liar," as someone here said, because I had this experience.
Unity is interesting. While it does not "break" for me per se, every Ubuntu release comes with out-of-left-field surprises, which at least break my expectations (I did not expect Amazon search results from what I thought was an app launcher). Unity 7 has been stable for a few releases, but only because the team has been working hard on Unity 8 and mobile. Of course we all know that when Unity 8 becomes default it will be major breakage (again, I don't mean bugs, I meant usage habits) because it's a total rewrite of not only the shell, but the entire graphics stack.
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