I gave KDE4 a brief spin over the last couple of days, and I’ve got to say that I pretty much hated it. I think Ubuntu Tutorials hit it right on the nose, so I won’t go into any real detail of what sucked so bad. Suffice it to say that the two main things (for me) that made it so awful were the following:
- They basically took everything useful out of the K menu, so it’s not clear at all how to even do anything. If it’s so confusing for someone who’s previously used KDE at some length, I shudder to think how a novice user would fare.
- It looks so much like Aero. So much.
So, whatever. I kind of hated it. However, I’m a semi-devout GNOME/Aqua user, and I’ve got my desktop tweaked so I can wring every last drop of screaming productivity out of it. Maybe try the new KDE for yourself. YMMV.
If you do want to get it going on your system, and you’re running Ubuntu (or prolly any Debian-based distro), you can use this tutorial.