Was 2004 KDE the comfiest desktop computing?

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That looks like Windows XP with AIDS.

>linux in 2004
You couldn't even get audio working

oss > alsa

in 1998, I was BEGGING aol for dialing strings to use on fucking Turbo linux to connect to the net. kids today have it pretty good.

No. No it wasn’t. Openbox and it’s simple configs was and is the most comfy, basic window management system and building block for a user configured, traditional floating window desktop experience.

sup grandpa

>no start menu
>no programs
>no internet explorer
found the brainlet

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>xml
>"simple config"
I guess it's better than FVWM

>struggles with xml configs

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I don't "struggle" with it

Honestly: It was probably the comfiest KDE desktop. I have found memories of KDE 3. I really liked it. Then the disaster that was KDE 4.0 came in 2008. I switched to XFCE and I've been using XFCE ever since. I know the latest KDE is better than the 4.0 disaster but it's still not nearly as comfy as KDE 3.

It was really great. KDE really had lightning in a bottle at the time. I went to meet with the developers in Dublin at their Akademy conference in 2006 and was excited as hell to hear what they were working on next. Then Aaron Seigo started talking about Plasma and it was all downhill from there. RIP KDE3 gone but never forgotten.

FPBP

Fucking Siego.

>what is obmenu/obconf
>xml is hard

KDE 2.0 was. KDE 3.0 was a bloated broken mess.
Gnome 3.0 was comfy too.

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Good times.

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Bestiest times.

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nice assessment there asswipe

We should ditch clover OS and compile these desktops and distribute them as .deb packages. We could offer Devuan (Debian without systemd) with these installed.

Let's not forget that KDE was supposed to be...
>powerful Open Source graphical desktop environment for Unix workstations.

Loonix fags ruined KDE.

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I reinstalled SUSE 9 in a VM the other month and was surprised at how snappy and functional everything felt. Modern Linux devs seem to have a screw loose as they keep pumping out shit.

It's called "muh bloat", because developer times means more than user time. Who cares if the user has a shit experience.

That theme just makes me feel so relaxed and at ease

Never forget, GNOME was a shitty hacky knock off of KDE due to autistic licensing faggotry.

Gnome was made to utilize GTK in a desktop environment as an alternative to Qt.

What is your honest opinion on Trinity DE? trinitydesktop.org/
Q4OS looks cool too.

So pretty much what I said. Autistic licensing faggotry about Qt license lead to them making a shitty, hacky, knock off of KDE based on GTK garbage.

Retarded autistic neckbeards set back progress by literally decades.

It was GTK and Qt not Gnome desktop environment itself.
So the right statement would be:
>Never forget, GTK was a shitty hacky knock off of Qt due to autistic licensing faggotry.

>15.2 KB/s

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looks like current XFCE

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SOPA

that's spanish you dumb burger

I hated KDE back then, I thought the interface was to Playschool-y. I much prefer the current iteration of Plasma.

I find it funny now that the "light" XFCE feels heavier and has less features than Windows 7.

If they weren't all obviously such idiots I'd suspect sabotage.

If the taskbar wasn't so thick, yes.

You obviously weren't there you retard.
UNIX workstations weren't competitive except in small niches, BSD had legal and funding problems, and Microsoft was steadily taking over everything.
If anything, Linux saved the Unix OS family from irrelevance.

are there any color schemes like this for current KDE?

I miss those square and pixel-centric graphics. These days it seems like UIs are doing their best to pretend they're not on a computer.

Windows XP was AIDS.

are you typing this from a windows rt tablet?

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>using realplayer
Kaffeine was comfy but even then SUSE haven't included basic codecs or make it easy to install them.
Lie. Aside 3D acceleration (S3 shit), everything worked. The printer needed some config, but that's all.

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KDE was buggy as fuck.

In 2004 GNOME 2 was king.

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Is Trinity DE dead? It was the KDE 3 fork.

Looks like asshole. Why do linuxfags fetishize ugly aesthetics? Looking nice doesn't mean losing functionality (which I assume is what you manchildren pride yourselves on)

>gnome
>having desktop icons
Such a feature creep
It can be configured, but it's matter of taste, not system specific.

Bluecurve is such a comfy iconset.

I think we can both agree that GNOME 2.* and KDE 3.* are both miles better than what we have now.

No

why do wintoddlers pretend their shit OS looks good?

Yes

Maybe

They have no choice.

I miss 2000s design and don't care what people think of that

>Lie
Yeah sure, whatever you fucking say

>KDE
>Gnome
>XFCE
>LXDE
>LXQT
>Cinnamon
>MATE
into the trash it goes

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install trinity

I prefer my 2004 gnome setup

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Is there a way I could make modern kde look like this? I want that comfy kde early 2000s look.

I used it back then. I liked it. I guess because it was on my first non-windows PC (Mandrake)

Used it in uni. Good stuff.