27 engineers on Hacker News describe using KDE first-hand: 12 endorse it, 6 regret it, 4 are mixed.
“I recently jumped to Debian/KDE as a daily driver, and it feels great.”
endorse · personal · xattt · 2026-01-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I tried to move to KDE and it was utterly disappointing with the external monitor.”
regret · personal · IlPeach · 2024-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“KDE4 was a one step back two steps forward release”
mixed · personal · 2 yr · indymike · 2023-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“significant downgrade to Gnome desktops due to Red Hat removing KDE”
endorse · production · OPA100 · 2023-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I really thought that KDE 3.5 was perfect, but when KDE 4 came along, I found that I couldn't understand it.”
mixed · personal · dxs · 2022-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It's buggy, half-baked, and crash. I can ditch GNOME, KDE, and XFCE”
regret · personal · runjake · 2021-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using KDE since pre 1.0... I was fed up with KDE screwing up with Wayland.”
regret · personal · 22 yr · jhoechtl · 2020-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it's fast and has a really good look by default”
endorse · personal · 0.5 yr · niclo · 2020-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For about the past year, however, I've been using Fedora / KDE on desktop... This has been by far the best bluetooth experience I've had on Linux.”
endorse · personal · 1 yr · therealrootuser · 2020-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When I show people things on my laptop, I always end up talking about the desktop cube in KDE”
endorse · personal · npx · 2019-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“eventually found that KDE 4 had settled down and was just as customizable as KDE 3 was (for my purposes, at least)”
endorse · personal · ISV_Damocles · 2017-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had been using it throughout the 3.x series, and was extremely excited about (and then disappointed by) the 4.x releases”
mixed · personal · earthnail · 2016-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“KDE let me configure most of the keybindings in my .twmrc file... so I've been using KDE ever since.”
endorse · personal · 16 yr · drewg123 · 2016-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“KDE4 on FreeBSD has been far more stable for me than SLES”
endorse · personal · GalacticDomin8r · 2013-07-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using a patch that I made to address this annoying issue in KDE for a year now”
mixed · personal · 1 yr · foolano · 2012-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I can customize most of the stuff with KDE. It looks great, and fast ,responsive, and it's getting better and better.”
endorse · personal · 2 yr · sparx · 2012-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the overall fit and finish is years ahead of any leading open source DE”
regret · personal · rcb · 2012-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using KDE since 4.4, and it's been consistently awesome.”
endorse · personal · 2 yr · tikhonj · 2011-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The reason I chose KDE over gnome was that I could configure things.”
endorse · personal · rplnt · 2011-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In general I'm quite happy with how Fedora distributes KDE. They don't patch it very much and leave it mostly vanilla”
endorse · personal · 2 yr · sho_hn · 2011-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Gnome3 has joined KDE4 as some unusable tangent, essentially killing off systems I was very happy and productive with.”
regret · personal · jmoiron · 2011-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I once made the mistake to compile .. ahem .. attempt to compile KDE on an EEE pc”
neutral · personal · amne · 2023-05-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm using KDE on KUbuntu on my work laptop day-to-day for the last 18 months.”
neutral · production · 1.5 yr · grasseh · 2020-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Debian and KDE | xfce | i3 (depending on machine and task) as my main desktop and laptop operating system for 2+ years.”
neutral · personal · 2 yr · intrepidhero · 2019-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“KDE has always been my preferred option until I read an article where Linus T. said he used Gnome.”
neutral · personal · rodolphoarruda · 2016-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I also used to use fixes/addons to have a compact menu with chrome removed (using KDE settings)”
neutral · personal · pbhjpbhj · 2014-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?