I really enjoy KDE. I just don't like fighting it. Likely a combination of using stock Kubuntu and having tons of files in my home-folder caused the problems. I'm now using a subset from the PPA without KDE PIM and things run smooth.
I _really_ like KDE and enjoy using it most of the time. But I think it's not unreasonable to assume that it could be much better. From my subjective point of view is Windows 8.1 on the Pentium M 1.6Ghz notebook with 2GB faster when using the explorer than dolphin on a Core2Duo 6550 with 4GB RAM (with a quite fast Ultrastar A7K1000 HDD). Opening and saving files and things like that. It's still reasonable fast. I really can't complain. I just don't like the defaults and as I said I think KDE could do a lot better than that. When using Eclipse and doing Java development every megabyte RAM is worthwhile :)
I really enjoy KDE. I just don't like fighting it. Likely a combination of using stock Kubuntu and having tons of files in my home-folder caused the problems. I'm now using a subset from the PPA without KDE PIM and things run smooth.
I _really_ like KDE and enjoy using it most of the time. But I think it's not unreasonable to assume that it could be much better. From my subjective point of view is Windows 8.1 on the Pentium M 1.6Ghz notebook with 2GB faster when using the explorer than dolphin on a Core2Duo 6550 with 4GB RAM (with a quite fast Ultrastar A7K1000 HDD). Opening and saving files and things like that. It's still reasonable fast. I really can't complain. I just don't like the defaults and as I said I think KDE could do a lot better than that. When using Eclipse and doing Java development every megabyte RAM is worthwhile :)