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KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal

43 points · 57 comments · pndy

  1. jmclnx · · focus · HN ↗
    >In 2003, they conducted a usability study of the then newly released KDE 3.1.

    >The talk has three parts: what KDE learned – or failed to learn – from that study;

    This caught my eye, seems in many forums people still say 3.1 was the best KDE.

    But I remember trying out KDE 3.1 on Slackware at the time. All it did was give me extremely severe eye strain after about 1 hour of use. GNOME, XFCE and various Window managers did not give me eye strain of any type.

    New releases of KDE still caused that issue with me, but I found a color theme that I can use with KDE 5 that holds off eye strain after about 4 or 5 hours. Again all other DE and WMs, no issues. FWIW, I really like KDE 5, but it can still hurt my eyes :(

    I have not tried 6.x and will not see it until Slackware 16 is released. I will give it a shot but with my history, I am sceptical it will be fine for me.

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