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On 17/09/2016 21:17, Daniel Frey wrote: |
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> On 09/17/2016 12:08 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> On 17/09/2016 17:16, Robin Atwood wrote: |
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>>> On Saturday 17 September 2016, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>>> What a peculiar odd thing to say. You might want to revisit your word |
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>>>> choice there. |
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>>> Perhaps you're right. Unfortunately I don't have the time currently to |
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>>> fight with ebuilds so I will declare my system, in IBM's immortal |
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>>> expression, "functionally stabilised"! It does everything I need it to |
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>>> so updates are not really necessary. I looked into the KDE5 upgrade |
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>>> recently and what I read did not inspire me with confidence. |
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>> KDE5 works well enough, I've been using it here for months. There are |
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>> recurring reports of icons going missing and other uber-annoying |
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>> cosmetic issues, but I find the software quite functional. |
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> I like to actually *use* my computer though, not fight the DE. When I |
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> tried it months ago, plasma would crash every 10 seconds on its own. |
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Honestly, that sounds like you're projecting experiences of long ago |
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onto the present. |
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I haven't had a plasma crash in MONTHS, which falsifies everything you |
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say below.... |
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> KDE5 won't be stable until another year at the minimum. After installing |
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> it and having the crashing (and other issues, but the main one was the |
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> constant crashing) I had no desire to put up with a broken DE for years |
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> like my experience with KDE4. Hell, with KDE4 it took them two years to |
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> put back basic functionality like a fully-functional systemsettings. |
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>> One thing KDE5 isn't though, is KDE4++ :-) |
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>> If KDE4 is really what you want, then you best stick with it. |
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> It sure isn't easy though. I've stopped updating my computer and I |
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> probably won't try KDE5 until middle next year. Hopefully by then it'll |
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> actually be *usable*. It would have been nice if they snapshotted kde4 |
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> 7-8 months ago and put the entirety in kde-sunset before messing with |
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> ebuilds and creating cross-version dependencies. |
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> Dan |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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