KDE 4 was such a wonderful era for the Kubuntu project. There were never any critical bugs, it never froze, and ran absolutely flawlessly. Everyone loved KDE 4.
Someone came along and decided to ruin this beautiful desktop environment for us, by removing Qt 4 from the archive. Who would do such a terrible thing? KDE 4 worked perfectly well, and looks so much better than Plasma 5, especially on HiDPI monitors.
Yet again, that same darn person is trying to remove Qt 5, too. Who would dare to do something so controversial?
Well, I’m here to announce a solution. Introducing K4buntu, a revival of the KDE 4 desktop, on a rock-solid Ubuntu base:
Our goal is to make it look, feel, and function exactly like Kubuntu 14.04 LTS, the Trusty Tahr, with the added benefit of being newly announced today, April 1st, 2025. Our long-term vision is to release K5buntu on January 20th, 2038, which will serve to freeze Kubuntu 24.04 LTS in time, forever.
On this team, we don’t know what CVEs are. It stands for Coffee, Violins, and Exercise, right? Why should we pay attention to those? We don’t want to disturb the KDE, it needs time to think on its own.
Our core philosophy is, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Therefore, our goal is to not fix any bugs. Do you have bugs? Okay, cool story, bro. Our security and stability rating is already over 9000.