Can I get my desktop back in 15.04?

[David Lang]

On Wed, 6 May 2015, O. Sinclair wrote:

> On 06/05/2015 08:50, David Lang wrote:
>> On Tue, 5 May 2015, O. Sinclair wrote:
>>
>>> On 04/05/2015 17:14, D. R. Evans wrote:
>>>> support wrote on 05/03/2015 10:04 PM:
>>>
>>> Why not stay on 14.10? That is what I plan to do until Plasma5 matures
>>
>> because not everything that changes from 14.10 to 15.04 is KDE, and
>> having to loose all those other advantages to avoid the regressions in
>> KDE is very limiting.
>>
>> I also lost all my settings. Worse, on my laptop (lenovo T61 with 8G of
>> ram), I can't start firefox from KDE, it causes something to crash and I
>> end up back at the login screen.
>>
>> so for now, I'm running a different desktop. I'd like to use KDE, but I
>> can't do so if I can't run firefox.
>>
>> David Lang
>>
> Well, that is what I stated: if you want more recent versions of
> software or kernel there is almost always a ppa for that. I can use
> kernel 4.0, latest Libreoffice and so on while staying on KDE4. And
> actually mostly use kernel 4.12 while on 14.10 (kernel 3.16.x) as it
> works better with my hardware. If there is something *buntu is good at
> it is freedom of choice

not everything has a PPA, and if you install a huge number of PPAs then you end 
up with a completely unsupported system. If I wanted that, I'd just go with 
Gentoo rather than working with *buntu.

David Lang