qha

If that's your indicative of the quality of a project then I understand your position.

MATE is a fork of GNOME 2, which is a full featured desktop environment as well. MATE runs orders of magnitude faster and is much more stable than KDE. Especially on the old workstations where they installed LiMux.

I'm not going to say that the project failed entirely because of technical reasons, but at first glance it really looks like they took bad decisions. It's hard to defend a move where you end up with worse software and a worse experience for users, no matter how much money you save.

That's true, there was cronyism. For example, they used the worse, slower KDE instead of better options like MATE because KDE has a considerable European (and even German) legacy. I imagine they took many decisions like that.

Take a computer that used to run Windows 2000 and install KDE on it, it's no wonder people got pissed and they had to revert their decision.

Of that list, Notepad++ is the only product I use, so I'm happy with their decision :D

I vividly remember lots of things... what I wouldn't give for seeing IRC rise up again

Going back to what it was 20 years ago? I'm sold!

Oh my God, they pretended everybody has a 100 Mbps NIC and capped at that speed. That's completely retarded.

At least I'm going to give them credit for disclosing what the problem was. I would've be too ashamed to admit it.

The original name and domain of Facebook is TheFacebook.com :P

"Washington" and "Post" are also generic terms.

It's their software and they can do whatever they want with it. The real travesty here is thinking that just because Windows is widely used it should be given away.

>Because Windows is what the typical American PC user expects and is familiar with.

Without the "American".