Testing the KDE 4.2 Release Candidate, On Windows 272
Verunks writes "Ars takes the KDE 4.2 release candidate out for a test drive on Windows. The popular open source desktop environment has moved beyond Linux and is becoming increasingly robust on other platforms. Even KDE's Plasma desktop shell is now Windows-compatible."
Re:Sounds Great! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sounds Great! (Score:4, Funny)
None of my windows machines have had a BSoD in years!
I want my money back.
Re:Sounds Great! (Score:5, Funny)
Web server...no that's not it.
Desktop environment... no.
Oh - X11! Wait, no.
Uuuuh. Why do we reboot?
Oh yeah, installing new hardware! Sometimes you have to power down for that!
Oh, and every year when I update my kernel, whether I need to or not.
Re:Sounds Great! (Score:1, Funny)
It doesn't count if you never turn them on anymore...
Re:Fixed it for you (Score:5, Funny)
Please post a link to the bug report that you filed so that I can help triage it. Thanks.
No. If your desktop environment wasn't tested on HIS computer under HIS operating system with HIS libraries, you failed. I mean, you could've stopped by his apartment all last week! He was available then! You have no excuse for this complete laziness.
(laugh, it's funny!)
EU (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sounds Great! (Score:3, Funny)
two are on all the time. Two more are on frequently.
Re:Sounds Great! (Score:5, Funny)
UNIX - why reboot more often than you have sex?
Re:the real question is... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Sounds Great! (Score:3, Funny)
KDE 4.2.0 is out today, and isn't a trainwreck. There are a few annoyances left, but most of them should be gone by 4.2.2. But then again, 4.2.0 wouldn't be four-two-o if it wasn't a bit four twenty.
KDE on WINDOWS! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sounds Great! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sounds Great! (Score:2, Funny)
Its similar to the restart process you do when you install a new kernel.
Re:Sounds Great! (Score:1, Funny)
My wife is like Windows
Re:Sounds Great! (Score:4, Funny)
The main reason I usually have for rebooting is moving house. The car journey lasts longer than the UPS.
Phillip.
Re:Sounds Great! (Score:3, Funny)
This is an element of what is also sometimes known as "percussive maintenance". When you have a computer that refuses to work correctly, often the first thing one does is to kick it angrily. If even after going through the usual support voodoo it still doesn't work, you "re-boot" (i.e. "kick it again") it.
On unreliable platforms, this may be the preferred way of dealing with problems.
Re:Sounds Great! (Score:4, Funny)
Konsole is not yet ported. Which makes me very sad since I switched to Windows 7 until KDE 4 stops being the trainwreck that it is, [ ... ]
This has to be one of the most bizarre comments I've ever read in here (and that's quite something).