Is KDE 4 The Desktop Answer?
I just read an article about this in ComputerWorld Australia. The article is an interview and talks about some of what will be new in KDE 4. Having used KDE for close to 10 years now, I am clearly a fan but I am not sure KDE 2, 3, 4 or 27 is the answer.
More accurately, I am not sure KDE, Gnome or whatever is the answer to getting everyone using Linux systems. Yes, KDE today is very nice from a user point of view and KDE 4 will be better. Also, each version of KDE "does more" for the developer so there is less work to do. I think there are two problems:
1. Politics
2. Intertia
The politics is obvious: the mainstream answer, years ago, was an IBM mainframe. More recently it has been Mircrosoft Windows. Good or bad, what is popular is generally the right political choice. The same is true with intertia.
What will get people to change is not having "something new that does the same thing" but having something people want which isn't available elsewhere. This is why each model year a new VCR had a new bell and whistle.
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