[tifadg1]

I'm very thankful to KDE - everything works, haven't seen regressions in ages. One DE aspect that hasn't kept up with the current trends is config backup/restore. I've got ansible scripts that bring a fresh F35 vm to maybe 90% of my existing golden-config setup, including data, but there are some corners which can't be blunted - mostly around multi-monitor setup. Still the best DE for me by far.

That said, I always remove `kf5-akonadi`, `calligra` and disable baloond (wish it could be removed but it's too deeply integrate).

[eloisius]

Also thankful. For so many years I used Gnome and KDE apps exclusively because I wanted a uniform look. Only now, after many years of tolerating web-based UIs, and switching to i3 am I appreciating the KDE ecosystem. Generally every time I’m comparing apps the KDE one wins out. Dolphin (taken from a suggestion on HN) is the best file explorer that I’ve used. Okular is almost as good as Preview. If they had a signature annotation like Preview, I’d like it better. KTorrrent is great. I can’t believe I spent so long using the overly simplified Gnome apps.

[7speter]

Kate’s syntax support seems unmatched, imo

[brnt]

I love KDE and you can pry it from my cold dead hands.

That said, KDE+Wayland have not been stable for me across a variety of distros and hardware configs (responses are anywhere between "impossible" to poiting at another piece of software in the stack). Akonadi self-destructs every other week and is unrecoverable (only on Debian stable has is been 99% stable for me). Kmail devs have taken out a few features (such as letting you configure the reply button to reply to all by default) with neckbearded argumentation. Both these are a pity: I believe KDE PIM software is a hair shy from being the best and most versatile PIM software on Earth.

It's the best DE+apps I have ever used, but completely perfect it is of course not.

Baloo can be configured to not index file contents, which only a bad distro would default it to.

[ekianjo]

> everything works

hyperbole much? how does everything work and at the same time every weekly update corrects tons of bugs?

[jraph]

You'd have a comparable number of bug fixes for any such big DE. It's just that KDE communicates on this. And if you look closer, the stuff being listed is often niche, not blocking or affects relatively new features. There are not a lot of regressions. I blindly update KDE these days, and use a rolling release distro to benefit from the improvements quickly.

[viraptor]

At that size of a project everything will have bugs. With the current way we develop software it's unavoidable. If they're not stopping you from doing what you want to, then "everything works" is true.

[tifadg1]

everything works for my workflow*.

That said I don't use a lot of kde specific apps, rather opt for best-in-class, and terminal for others. Still - the system itself is stable.