This is going to be part review and part open letter to KDE develpers. The install I evaluate is somewhat divergent from defaults, and indeed some of what I complain or congratulate on being fixed might be the result of the vestiges of old preferences.
kde
: the K desktop environment
The linux Desktop Environment. I used to use it quite a lot, and still write apps targeting Qt sometimes.
It has been brought to my attention by a certain someone that I have not updated in a while. Being one of the few and proud users of propper capitalization, I suppose I should fight the good fight and struggle through this time of the not altogether barren wordscape that grows in the plains of my brain. Its a rich field in there.
Fresh off my install of KDE 3.1 RC5, I've been given a reason to use Linux and a reason to love KDE again. Its not how great keramik combined with everaldo's crystal theme look, or how polished the gray facade of my WM makes the OS as a whole feel; its how open source software makes way for innovations that closed source software simply doesn't allow.
Because a man does not have a webchat, does not make said man less of a man. In fact, since said man is me, I definitely am not lesser for it. Of course, I've wanted to code for a few day's now and have been unable to do so, but I am enjoying myself in my Linux console (mostly because I just broke my KDE install.. but thats another story). In fact, the Linux console is so powerful, that I'm actually amazed. Sit closer, son, and listen to my story.
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