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From: Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 07:38:38 +0200
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>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.

I do recall 3.x being gone almost immediately. And the same when the 4
=> 5 migration happened.

Greetings
Marc
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