KDE Is Bloated

Wednesday, 9 November 2005  |  Stefan Teleman

so, KDE suffers from bloat, over-engineering and user confusion. apparently.

personally, i never thought that to be the case until now, but, there are others who seem to hold these beliefs to be self-evident. i respect everyone's opinions and beliefs, even though they may be different than, or opposite to, my own.

i want to help. really, i do. therefore, i have spent some time thinking about an alternative to this over-engineering bloatness problem in KDE. luckily, i think i found a solution: DOS.

please let me explain. let's start first by enumerating KDE's most blatant defects:

  1. Bloat
  2. Too many configuration options
  3. Over-engineered
  4. Confusing to the average user

this list of shortcomings seems incomplete. to wit, i shall add my own personal complaint about KDE:

  1. Too many blue icons and buttons

i want this blog entry to be an objective, professional and knowledgeable comparative analysis of KDE's weaknesses vs. DOS' strenghts. therefore, i will now enumerate DOS' overwhelming superiority over KDE, in the areas mentioned above:

  1. No bloat, runs in 64K. beat that if you can.
  2. No configuration options. if you disagree, name one.
  3. Under-engineered (i think you'll agree)
  4. Very clear and concise for any user (you only need to know about C:, and everything is command line)

and, most importantly:

  1. No blue icons or buttons.

if there still is any doubt about DOS' superiority over KDE, please allow me to describe a few typical KDE user situations. for example, in KDE, if you want to get to a shell command line, you have to start Konsole. Konsole has blue icons. therefore, Konsole is Bad. Bad Konsole makes for a Bad user experience. what's even worse, Konsole comes with a Blue Background. that is also Bad. another example: in DOS, every directory on your hard drive starts at C:. easy enough, clear, intuitive, concise, no confusion possible. that is a Good Thing. compare that with Konqueror, or Krusader. again, Blue Icons for folders. Bad. Blue buttons at the top. Bad. there is no C:, and all these Blue Folders are arranged in this weird tree-like shape. Bad.

Conclusion: DOS is better than KDE. QED.

i live in a Blue State. Bad.