Agreed. It's a work of art.
Today I noticed the option to close option in the 'present windows' effect and how they reshuffle and scale. It's the little things like that that make KDE a pleasure to use.

I'll admit to having defected for a little while but this version, my dear beauty, has hit the sweet spot.

I use KDE since Ubuntu 11.04, I went one day through all it's System Settings and I felt in love. I was loving KDE before too but it was crashing(mainly because of Nepomuk) pretty often but it got stable now, I didn't have a single crash in Kubuntu 11.10. I still find almost on a daily basis something new in it.
A few things I like which people might not know about:
- Activities - wasn't using before but now a few days ago tried it a little bit more and I just love them, I am a student so I made for every subject an Activity, when I switch to them I have folders with Courses and Labs and all the Applications that I need for the particular subject on the screen.
- Alt + F3 -> Fullscreen - I like how it can make any application fullscreen, found out that this feature was available at least since KDE 3.
- Middle mouse drag the title bar of the application and drop into another application to Group them.
- Dolphin - self explanatory, it's damn amazing.
- System Settings -> Workspace Appearance -> Cursor Theme -> Get New Theme -> ComixCursors
- Windows snap into all 4 edges.
- Push top-left corner for Alt + Tab, I use it when I am in Fullscreen.
- Snap folders to the left in Dolphin for fast access.
etc...

so do i .
seriously it is best u can get . overpast one year . i have trued several desktop enviroments . just kde has won my heart and appreciation

I know this is an old thread but yeah. I installed krita on win 8.1 a little while ago and it has impressed me no end. Well done all those involved with its development. Outstanding work!

Cheerio

Just my five cents:
Recently I found a discussion regarding the stability and basic "QA" of developers in some KDE bug report, though at the wrong place, but the reporter got it off my chest. It was about the instability of the "ecosystem" KDE declared stable. I decided not to agree in a bug report, but I found this discussion here might be a better place.
My view is a bit different than what was said here.

I the Linux distribution maintainers offer KDE as a major installation option they most probably do so because it is declared stable and "ready for daily use".

I tried with OpenSUSE, but looking over the bug reports I can't confirm it is a distribution-specific problem. My experiences I have had the last few months while intensively using KDE 5 weren't the best - crashes of Plasma, Baloo and other major components of KDE and irregular behavior of the systray in front. Don't get me wrong, I honestly appreciate the work on and the design of KDE. I'm currently also maintaining an open-source project, I'm not in the position of just not having an imagination about how to save a minimum of quality as a developer before declaring something ready for daily usage. All bugs I found I reported, in most cases I found duplicate reports for the same problem. Describing details would go beyond the scope of this discussion.

The same story had been for KDE 4 (including PIM), it tooks many major versions and not just months but years to get rid of crashes and obvious (not accidental) irregularities which prevented it from seriously using it. At the time of being obsolete KDE 4 can be really considered stable.

The same seems to repeat in KDE 5, from the very first beginning crashes that couldn't have been overlooked by someone installing it as a whole. Sometimes a Qt problem, sometimes not. Before releasing KDE should be better proven in real world tests wherever it is possible before pushing it to the distributions. It is really about the reputation of KDE, not to offend someone. Better leave it in an announced beta state for a couple of months for testing purposes instead of declaring it stable, it is just a label, but means a lot. Because it is not just an app, it is a whole "ecosystem" for users. This gives distribution maintainers a better chance to believe it is stable and thinking about delivering it as a main installation option. Most irritating are crashes and bugs which in theory can't be overlooked even in an ideal development environment.

Unfortunately I can't confirm KDE 5 (Frameworks, Plasma, Applications) to be rock-solid, it is some miles away from it. For my purposes It feels still like beta.
I understand that several apps haven't been migrated yet. I postponed using the KDE PIM 5 suite, due to repeating serious issues already reported but not really solved, and using Thunderbird instead. From time to time I resume to check it. There hasn't been overcome the gap between having a first implementation of a phantastic new idea and stabilizing it.

I'm a bit tired every week to report bugs, I just wanted to use it some time.
Anyway, I'm strong and continue to use it on my home and work computers. I'm glad KDE exists (using it from version 3).