Kubuntu experience

[Brian Astill]

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:27, you wrote:
> Let me know how the KDE Version of Ubuntu treats you.

Well, it installed "like a dream", but I am very disappointed cpw my 
warty plus downloaded KDE (on the system I am using to send this 
message to you) and my prior experience of KDE in FBSD.

The number and variety of apps is so diminished as to be worrying.
kappfinder is NOT listed - I just knew it had to be there - but it finds 
litte more.

No Firefox, no emacs, no gnumeric (because it's gnome?) no abiword (same 
reason?).  You have kate, but not kwrite or kedit.  Why not a single 
game?  No xmms or xine, no kuickshow, no gimp.  So it goes on...

Worse, I have had trouble with kynaptic.  It does not have the useful 
"edit your repository" feature of Synaptic, so I could not change 
sources.list (to add multiverse and universe) nor to change from ubuntu 
to my local mirror.  To accomplish this I had to change root's password 
and from a root console use nano.  That change saved OK, but kynaptic 
now refuses to recognise either mine or the new root's passwords!   :-(

I am not allowed to log in as root.  Frankly this is MOST 
unsatisfactory.  I need to be able to take total control of my own 
system, please.

What do I do, now?  Is hoary similarly stripped of useful apps?
Will hoary allow me to log in as root if I need to do this?
Should I just chuck out the whole idea of unbuntu as my failed 
experiment with a flawed disto?

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Regards,
Brian