January 12, 2006
Why I Love KDE
After a long hard day of working on house improvement and computer projects yesterday, I decided to poke around KDE a bit. You always hear about Windows and OS X as the two competing desktops. After using KDE as my primary desktop for about six months now, considering the work I do, I wouldn't trade it in for anything.
KDE has every feature that a programmer or well-organized person could want. As a programmer, it increases my productivity. There is no question why I prefer to work from home and use my KDE desktop environment.
What I love best about KDE
- Built-in protocol handlers (e.g. sftp:// ftp:// http:// samba:// webdav://). These protocols can be used in ANY KDE application to open and save files. Do you know how easy it is to work with remote files this way!! No more manual FTP commands after every save!
- It comes with an application to do everything. The best part about it, everything works together. For example, the time-tracking application, KArm integrates with KOrganizer, which can be set up to integrate with 3rd party groupware utilities, such as eGroupware, Kolab, SLOX, or Novel Groupwise.
I'm writing this entry during a period of euphoria, as I just discovered more cool applications that KDE ships with. Next time someone tells me how cool Vista or OS X looks, I'll just laugh to myself. KDE is more productive than anything. Period. Now let's see who is laughing when I can get more work done and earn more $$$.
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