I’ve been a KDE user for many years. Maybe it’s just me, maybe the UI world is changing, but the newest incarnation of KDE sucks big time.

All was fine until the 4.x series, then suddenly, the switch was made and what do we have now? All glitter, all bloatware. And what’s with the desktop icons? Where’s the simplicity? Do you want to confuse new users to death?

The first releases were so buggy that only serious promotion through blogs and news articles kept people’s interest alive. Then came “bugfix releases” that didn’t change anything from the overall look point of view. Mimetype icons still missing.

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