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First, 4:3 looks good. There’s a reason I prefer the 9:10 ratio in modern machines. 16:9 is great for watching movies and playing games but the older format was better for computing IMHO.

Also, when I got into Linux I used Gnome 2. By the time I got to try KDE they were on version 4 and I absolutely hated it. I should try the earlier versions as I’ve heard good things about KDE 3, and it looks quite nice. I also like the look of 2 in the screenshots but if I’m honest I really dig the whole vibe of 1.0.

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Aug 1, 2022·edited Aug 1, 2022Author

Well, if you wanna fire up a Slackware VM, I made the packages available here https://bradfordmorganwhite.com/kde3.cgi

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Doing the Lord's work my friend. Well played.

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Aug 17, 2022Liked by Bradford Morgan White

Absolutely understand your KDE 4 hate :) 3.5 were golden, rock solid, everything had its place, everything worked. One of the apps I used to love those days was music player called Amarok - doing everything the player should do and sometimes something more.

And then came 4.0. At first I was so eager to get it - you know - new paradigm, new visuals, new approach. Everything would be better, movable, objective, anything you could imagine. I was building pre-release versions just to enjoy the miracle. The thing is, it usually crashed in couple of minutes after login and the thing also is, that this experience remained the same even with stable releases (and built by more experienced people than me, distributed in fedora repos), version after version after version. And not talking about that it was still and still lacking even basic functionality the 3.5 had.

And then came Amarok2 - plasmatic monster of music players where playlist occupied 1/5 of the screen on the right, your music library another 1/5 of the screen on the left and in between... BEHOLD! The PLASMA Area itself! For widgets like lyrics that never worked.

I don't know how I survived this period, as I'm still KDE (5 now) user and I'm glad that Amarok 1 survived in the Clementine/Strawberry form at least :) Even I have to admit that the AmaroK name was much cooler.

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Oh wow! I didn’t know Clementine was a fork of old Amarok. I tried Amarok on KDE 4 and 5 but just never really liked it. I was more of a Banshee guy myself. Reminded me of iTunes I suppose, but I really like Clementine.

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Not sure if exactly fork, but at least very good counterfeit :)

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