This morning, I woke up, reached for my phone to turn off the alarm, and looked at my unread emails. I sign up for Google Alerts and they tell me when philoking is mentioned around the web.
This morning I woke up to see a list of KDE reviews and my name was the last one with the text:
PhiloKing – Had to include this whinging tantrum from an admitted Mac/Windows fanboy
Wow, that’s pretty harsh. For one, I don’t really think I am a fanboy on any front, the OS Agnostic part of my site means I talk fairly about Linux, Windows and OS X. That’s why I booted up KDE 4 in the first place to take a look. But seriously folks…the point of the article was the default experience with KDE 4 is very bland looking. I absolutely know you can make it shockingly beautiful with Compiz or Beryl, I have used both.
Let’s take a comparative view of them and see what the default experience looks like and which look professional and which don’t.
| Windows Vista | Mac OS X Leopard | KDE 4 |
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So it may not be fair to the one that doesn’t have the billions of R&D money that Microsoft or Apple have, but look at Compiz and Beryl. Those are both open source movements. Why can they both get the polish and pizzaz they have, but KDE 4 looks like OS2 Warp or something.
I don’t find my comments to be a "Whinging Tantrum" just an honest opinion of the default startup state of KDE 4. It needs help folks, it’s boring.