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Very interesting to see KDE 1 active. I started with Caldera in 2000 and before I retired the original installation which I had not updated in view of what had happened to Caldera, I did a short (static) presentation showing KDE and making some comparisons between programs as they were in 2000 and much later, after I had moved to new hardware and SUSE.
There is a brief description of the programs I was using in 2000 on my website.
Ah fun, thanks for the memories. I had been compiling KDE myself since around 0.8, at home on Linux and in school on HP-UX (didn’t go as well). With KDE 1.0 I moved to SuSE Linux. Generally I’ve been using Linux on servers and in VMs. I can work with almost any GUI, productivity is more about the code I write than how the UI works, but when I have the choice I always find myself using KDE Plasma.
I’ve only started using Linux exclusively in the last few years, as Steam+Proton and everything else have really come together. Systemd is also a major improvement in system management and with things like BTRFS, Pipewire, Wayland and Flatpak the modern Linux desktop is a great place to be. And Plasma 6 - almost here.
Have settled on Tumbleweed, eying the immutable stuff.
The X11 “x” busy/loading icon is still there 
Adding a supplemental video showing how I created it and some attempts at playing a video in 1999.
