I have always been more of a Gnome fan than KDE. But KDE 4.0 is pretty interesting. Some of the new ideas in this new release are amazing. The new artwork is so good, and in fact, so Gnome-ish!
But the sad thing is that they rushed it. So far, all reviews of the release candidates were not good. Reviewers spoke of instability and frequent crashing. Even some of the project's leads spoke of the same issues.
It's a safe bet that version 4.1 will be better, but this will be 6 months from now, but the month of April is getting nearer and we will see the distros that will be released, Kubuntu and Mandriva and how they will handle KDE 4.
openSUSE, Mandriva, Fedora, Kubuntu, Debian and many other distros are already providing either Live CDs for the final release of KDE 4 or they have already uploaded the updates to their repositories.
I will be downloading the Kubuntu 7.10 KDE 4.0 Live CD soon, God willing. I will post back here for my impressions, but I highly doubt that it will be stable or usable. After all, a lot of the awaited KDE 4 programs are still to be released, as Amarok 2.0 which is still in the works.
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Well said.
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