Ahh, retro is good... nowadays it is possible to enjoy the sanity of the KDE3 desktop with modern software, thanks to the Trinity Desktop project.

Until very recently, there seemed to be an issue with installation on Mageia, but the latest version seems to have overcome this, and I was able to install it last week. After I got back from my birthday trip to Changwon this weekend, I remembered that I had to log in, and it worked first time. After about thirty minutes of clicking, it now looks pretty much like my current Plasma desktop minus the widgets.

Unlike "certain" OSes that I could mention, there is a whole range of different desktop systems to suit your requirements and taste. I liked KDE3 very much and lamented its loss during the early KDE4 fiasco; there is a lot to be said for a graphical desktop which is simple and exposes software in a straightforward menu system. However, TDE (Trinity Desktop Environment) is essentially KDE retro-styled to use a modern version of Trolltech's Qt and it runs everything that I would normally run under Plasma (also recently installed with the upgraded Mageia OS).

Fun??? I should bally well say so...