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Wow, I installed the tiling extension and it's much more pleasant than vanilla kwin.

I first used KDE over 20 years ago, version 2.x. KDE 4 was awful, and I moved to Gnome. Since version 5 I'm back on KDE and most notably, the battery life of my laptop is twice as much! And it's configurable. And beautiful.

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I've been using KDE since 2.7 and I agree that, at least initially, 4 was awful, but primarily it was awful for the exact reasons Gnome was and is awful - they took away all the powerful functionality. They Apple-ified it.

After a few point revisions it was almost back to it's former glory. 5/plasma is basically back to the power of 3.0, but I still miss Konqueror.

Well, Konqueror is still there. Dolphin just got so capable that people don't want to switch anymore, and it was left behind as a browser.

I miss the browser. I miss when we cared about KHTML passing the ACID2 tests.

I'm quite old now I guess :)

Oh, ok. I miss having alternatives too.

If it kept up, I probably wouldn't be using Firefox now.

Rekonq was stupidly fast and lightweight...

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