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KDE finally got back to its 3.x level of quality a few years back, towards the middle of the 5.x releases. They are now on 6.x.

I highly recommend giving it another try, I'm super picky and modern KDE simply delivers the best and most flexible desktop experience, bar none.

by pimeys6 hours ago|

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Yep. I used KDE from the early betas until KDE 4 and escaped at that point to the i3/sway world.

KDE 6 is really good tho. It's so fast, works great, Dolphin is the absolute best file manager there is...

by blooalien6 hours ago|

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> ... because I abandoned KDE due to the KDE 4 disaster.

I totally hated that whole mess. It almost ruined KDE for me. The real disaster there wasn't that KDE released v4 prematurely, but that they didn't make it crystal clear to the distro maintainers (and end-users) that it was not ready for "prime time" use yet (it was basically "pre-release"/alpha quality), and the major distros of the time jumped on making it the default (forced it on everyone) when it was still basically utterly broken compared to the prior versions of KDE (which had become overall quite solid and reliable by that point).

by toyg5 hours ago|

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It's all post-hoc rationalisation. They got caught in their own hype and released low-quality code. They fucked up, that's all, and it's a bit embarrassing that they won't admit it.

by pimeys4 hours ago|

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But also they built on it, and KDE 6 benefits from all that work and is an exceptional desktop.