Back in May 2009, I posted Everything that is wrong with KDE 4.2 (and a few things that are right) on this forum. I'm now on KDE 4.3, and actually looking forward to KDE 4.4 now. Everything there has either been fixed or has become irrelevant as my habits changed. Well, almost everything.

The elephant in the room remained Amarok 2, which never became good no matter how hard I tried to like it. I've now finally declared it to be dead to me and decided it would be better for everyone if I just stopped using Amarok entirely (the wallpaper in the article is actually what I'm using for Desktop 7 on my PC until I decide what else to do with it). Note that I'm not crossposting the article as I make no serious effort to be constructive or even nice, I've just given up all hope for Amarok now, this is mostly for closure.

Two things to note. I don't switch back to Amarok 1.4 for three reasons:

1) It's not in the Debian repositories any more, and I'm not going to try and keep something the size of Amarok working on my newer and newer testing system indefinitely.
2) It's not maintained any more, and it never will be again. So any bugs or security problems would be down to me to deal with. No application is worth that much to me.
3) If an application is discontinued and I don't like what it's replaced with, I find something else. After you've done that with a whole operating system (**** you too Microsoft), nothing is sacred.

Second, I only found out about Clementine just after finishing and uploading my article. I don't think it's worth editing the article as I may not end up using Clementine either (MPD really is very cool), but I must say I am pleasantly surprised that someone stepped up and did what the Amarok developers won't. I wish the developer of that project all the best.

I always like how when people experience critical bugs in software, they always assume that everyone else is experiencing these same bugs and are baffled at why the developers released such broken software. Usually, the truth is that the bugs they're experiencing are very rare, and probably specific to their hardware or system configuration.

I haven't had any major problems with recent Amarok 2 releases and I'm fairly certain I'm in the majority not the minority.

I've tried many (including Amarok's 1.4 version)

I still find myself going back to the current Amarok.