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Re:LinuxWorld 1999, Torvalds and Stallman [video] by starsinspace on Thursday July 25, 2019 @03:02PM (#20528358)
> FWIW i think desktop peaked around Windows 2000 and on Linux around GNOME 2 and KDE 3.5

IMO the peak of KDE was version 2.2... 3.0 was already a step backwards, although it did become quite good again by the time it reached 3.5. Then with 4.0 everything was reset once more (how many times can you break the ecosystem until application developers and users have had enough of it?)

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Re:LinuxWorld 1999, Torvalds and Stallman [video] by Crinus on Friday July 26, 2019 @07:00AM (#20533849)
TBH i never used 2.x, after KDE1.x i mainly used Window Maker (and still use that when on Linux) with the exception of a couple of years when i used Ubuntu as my main OS back when it had GNOME 2. I used KDE 3.x (not sure if 3.5 or earlier though) as a secondary system via a tiny Knoppix CD.
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