[arch-general] We have lost the desktop war. The reason? Windows 7.

[Felipe Tanus]

I also had a "crysis" some time ago about how windows can match linux.
But it's just use windows for 3 months or so, and suddenly I change my
opinion once again :)


2009/10/26 David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net>:
> On 10/26/2009 01:30 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
>>
>> I think the biggest problem that kde4 will have to overcome is the stain
>> on kde's reputation caused when a few major distros pushed kde4 out the door
>> as a "New Desktop" when it was barely beta (kde 4.04 was released by SuSE as
>> the desktop for 11.0 in June 2008) kde4.04 as a desktop -- gimme a break!
>
> ... which was caused by the KDE devs' bad decision to release it as 4.0,
> which set everyone's expectations that it was production-ready software.
>  Had they labeled the whole 4.0 series (and possibly even the 4.1's) as beta
> software, that wouldn't have happened.
>
> DR
>



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