Do we need Win95/98/Me support?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Kiith-Sa" <42 at theanswer.com> wrote in message 
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>
> That said, it is true that some Linux vendors have gone crazy
> trying to "reinvent the GUI". Gnome3 and Unity (Ubuntu) are both 
> tabletized
> (Win8 is also going in similar direction) and both much more inefficient 
> than Gnome2 was.
>

Gnome3 and Unity are the main reasons I've been moving from Ubuntu to 
straight Debian.

> That said, KDE, which used to be bloated, has been optimizing quite 
> singificantly over the last few releases, and seem to plan to continue 
> doing it.
> KDE however always comes with some useless "Social desktop" features 
> enabled
> by default, which kill the performance (and make people think KDE is still 
> bloated - great PR, KDE!). Anyway, once that is disabled, at least on my 
> notebook Ubuntu/KDE is faster than Win7.
>

My main Linux machine is still Kubuntu 10.04 (yea, just haven't gotten 
around to upgrading). At the time, the word about KDE4 was that it had 
pretty much gotten over it's botched early releases. And yet I had some sort 
of major issue with it (don't remember what) that required upgrading to 
whatever brand new point release had just come out, umm, 4.5 or 4.6 (and 
even the upgrade process wasn't entirely straightforward, IIRC).

So there KDE4 was, over it's initial problems, and upgraded to roughy the 
second or third "Really, it's good now!" release...and it's still the 
outright buggiest POS window/desktop manager I've ever used in my life. For 
example, the files on the desktop: Sometimes when I boot up, they're there. 
Usually, they're not. And when I boot, it'll decide on it's own which way it 
wants to be without me ever touching any settings whatsoever. And then 
dolphin's left-side tree-pane has a schizophrenic mind of it's own, too - 
although that one I have a feeling may actually be by design.

'Course, even *that* was some time ago now, and perhaps it's even better 
now, but...Even if it's perfect now, the only KDE I'll be willing to try 
anymore is Trinity.

Although: How do you disable that "social desktop" stuff? This is the first 
I remember hearing about it, so I'm not sure I have it disabled or not.