Reasons to try KDE

KDE logo My number one reason to give KDE another try at the moment is that it is based on Norwegian technology.

You might call that a little nationalistic, but there are other reasons as well:

The open source Qt toolkit from Norway based software vendor Trolltech is the foundation of KDE. And even Linus Torvald, Linux's founding father, recommends KDE: I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE. (..) Please, just tell people to use KDE.

I want to try and use KDE mostly due to the fact that it is Norwegian technology. But I also want to use it as some of my most used application; the Opera Web browser and the peer-to-peer voice-over-IP application Skype, are built using Qt. So they would indeed preform better on KDE that my current desktop environment.

Norwegian technologies foundation of KDE

You might call that a little nationalistic, but I does actually want to use and promote Norwegian technology. I think it is important to back up Norway's efforts in the digital world. That where one of the main reasons I wanted to give the Opera Web browser a try a few years ago too! I fell in love with Opera's superior technology and user interface and start using it as my default Web browser. This where of course long before Internet Explorer and even the open source star browser, Firefox, had cough up with Opera.

Another reason for trying KDE is that I finally will have a good enough reason to give their audio player, Amarok, another try. I tried this once but did not give it much attention as I had an Apple iPod at the time and Banshee's iPod support seamed to suite my needs better.

Well, enough with the talk… Daniel is inserting a Kubuntu LiveCD, and will be trying to install Fedora Core 6 with KDE later on…

Update: Haha, just look at the one advertisement currently running on this Website! It's for a premium email provider based in Norway!

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3 comments

I was a Gnome/fluxbox user until I started to use openSUSE (I know I've almost made a deal with the devil …), I decided to install KDE for the first time in ages, just to see how it had evolved since my last try.

Well, I'm impressed. And I haven't missed gnome/fluxbox in a long time. That is I miss the menu system from fluxbox, but that is about it.

Comment by Kent Vegard Evjen at 2007-01-25 @950.

I started using Kubuntu recently in my laptop. I have used KDE before, but it was so buggy and resource intensive, I stopped using it. I started using again since it has matured a lot and not as buggy as before.

Comment by Arun at 2007-01-26 @693.

And what about KDE 4? That sure looks sexy!