Reasons to use KDE 3.5.8
- It's a stable, well tested system which has had most of the rough edges whittled away over time - and most of the time, it just works. (This reason could be expanded into many bullet points - one for each thing in KDE 3.5.8 which works which is broken in KDE 4.0.0, but I'll leave it rolled up into a single bullet point to save this looking more like a rant than it probably already does - and leave the bug reports in bugs.kde.org).
- I don't have to use AIGLX (the non-compositing version of KDE 4.0.0's KWin isn't very useable), and so everything is much faster, Google Earth works and I can watch videos. (In KDE 4.0.0 kaffeine and codeine just show an empty black box)
- I can set up the panels just how I like them. (One medium sized panel at the bottom for the K-menu, the task list (or whatever it is called), a clock and the lock/logout buttons, and a small one at the top for a 'quick launch' bar, the pager and the system tray.)
- I think the style I use in KDE 3.5.8 is sharper than Oxygen currently is, which looks a bit blurry somehow - I'm not exactly sure why though. But it makes it nicer to use.
- Plasma on the desktop can be pretty (although it tends to crash a lot).
- KWin with compositing looks cool.
- Tabs in the Oxygen style look kind of nice.
- I can find bugs and report them so that KDE 4.0.1/KDE 4.1 can be better.
2 comments:
You can use both, to use plasma instead of kdesktop do "killall kdesktop;plasma" (thats if you have it in your PATH). Kde4 programs can be run while in a kde3 session and vise versa. Also to stick with kicker and get rid of the rubbish applet container in plasma check here: http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/kde+4+without+panel?content=73585
Can't say the same here, I use the svn head (updated every 2 days) at home on a production machine, and I've been ready to go back to 3.5 if necessary but it hasn't come up yet. The most instability I have seen is in the programs (konqueror, kwordquiz so far).
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