Speeding up KDE -- More Help Needed

[Dexter Filmore]

> Well, I'm a geeky kind of guy. I'm one of those nuts that ends up
> breaking things just cause I wanted to try it a different way, then
> have fun figuring out what I broke, how not to break it again, and how
> to fix it so it works better next time.

Yup, that's the spirit.

> Sometimes I think the Ubuntu's are making the linux world more like
> the Windows world. Don't know don't care, just as long as it works...
> which is good in some ways and not so good in others.

I hear ya. Talked a couple of friends into trying Kub with varying mileage. 
User type ranges from "technoid quasi-nerd" to "can't paste a url from the 
browser".
When I look at my Mac user friends I see this can work but still Linux isn't 
there yet, not even Kubuntu. 
The day come however the "community" idea will face a hard challenge.
If nobody knows anymore what makes the distro tick - how is anyone supposed to 
help someone?
If that means I have to *buy* support from Canonical - why use Linux anyway? 
I could rather get a Mac then and don't need support.
(Not trying to evangelize, just see a friend who's been a Mac guy for 9 years 
now and never ever phoned me about computer issues or complained having a 
tough day because he had to fix some obnoxious problem.)


> My very first linux I tried back in 1998 or so was Mandrake linux, and
> you got a gui installer sure, but that was about it, you got a GUI
> with about 4 programs on it and that was it, you wanted something
> installed ? Better download it and get comfortable with make && make
> install...  THAT was fun.

And resolve library dependencies on your own. I still do that on Slackware...



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