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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2025 22:43:22 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 09 Jun 2025 08:02:02 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> Linus Torvalds famously abandoned KDE when version 4 came out. I
>> think he (along with a lot of others) didn’t notice the caveat
>> attached to th e 4.0 release that it was just meant as a developer
>> preview.
>
> They should not have called in a 4.0 release then, and they should
> not have pulled the plug on the 3.x series. I bet that all major
> distributions packaged and shipped 4.0 instead of continuing to have
> 3.x.

I don’t recall anybody “pulling the plug” on 3.x -- not right away. It
was only those who chose to try 4.0 (without reading what it said on
the tin) that complained.