Is KDE 4 Stable? (was Re:Linus on Gnome 3.2)

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

On 12/04/2011 05:48 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 01:56:48PM -0500, CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
>> As I think about how I work, I could probably live happily on OS X
>> if it were not for the stupid keyboards on Macs and the fact that
>> without a coherent way of managing packages, it tends to be more of
>> a pain than it's worth to use MacPorts and such to install software
>> I care about. I might even be happy enough on Windows 7 for my
>> desktop environment but I haven't used Windows 7 very much.
>
> No fink anymore?  Anything to do with the BSD ports would be a pain.
> fink is Debian based and hence has lovely package management.
>
> http://www.finkproject.org/

I had tried that on a G4 Mac a couple of years ago. Both ports and fink 
sucked, though for different reasons if I recall. I can't remember my 
specific complaints but I remember lots of frustration and giving up in 
disgust. It might be better with a faster machine like my i5 MacBook 
Pro. I haven't cared enough to try.
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