Things I already hate about Kubuntu (new user)

[Derek Broughton]

The thing I hate most is ... people who tell me how much they hate
_anything_.  Really, I don't want to know what movies reviewers hated, I
don't want to know what music the critics despised and I don't much care if
someone doesn't like Ubuntu.  Now if you have a little critical advice, go
ahead:

> ubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
> 
>>1. Installation.
>>First, it reminded me of Windoze, one thing I don't need.  No input at
>>all.
>>Tried choosing "expert".  Did not look like offering choices.  And no
>>setting of the root password.  

You're a newbie?  Why on earth should you EXPECT a root password?  It's
absent for good reasons.

>>3. Grub.
>>Ubuntu took it upon itself to lead the list in the boot loader.  Hey, I
>>want to
>>be in charge of the Boot Loader!  It does not suit me right now (for
>>obvious
>>reasons) to have Ubuntu as the default.  When I set out to change this, I
>>came up against various obstacles, more of which in a moment.

Easy to change if you know enough, and too difficult if you don't.  Windows
would just have installed itself right over anything else and you
_couldn't_ fix it.

>>5. Only KDE and what about other utilities?
>>I wanted Kalarm, so I got Kubuntu 5.10 instead of Ubuntu 5.10.  But I'd
>>like
>>gedit and, if possible, Nautilus (Konqueror stinks, methinks).  I paid
>>$A9.90
>>for a one disk installation.  I would happily have paid more for a decent
>>installation if it was available.  

Ubuntu & Kubuntu are 1-disk installs.  it's a feature.  Use something else
or download from the Ubuntu site post-install if you want more. 
Personally, if you only wanted kalarm (huh?  the most insignificant part of
kdepim) you'd have done better to install Ubuntu and then pulled in kalarm
from the net.  KDE is too tightly integrated with Konqueror to go in your
direction.

>>While I'm at it, what would be wrong 
>>with a tool such as System Settings opening in its own window instead of
>>in Konqueror?

It does...

>>7. Administrator's tasks made harder.
>>A. I opened an administrative window from System Settings, which had
>>decided to
>>open as a list in Konqueror.  Everything was greyed out, except, possibly,
>>a note telling me to click on the Administrator's button if I wanted to
>>change
>>anything.  First, there was nothing to change.  Secondly, there was no
>>administrator's button.

There's a button, and if you tabbed you'd get to it.  You just didn't have a
high enough screen resolution to show the whole panel.

>>B. So, that meant I had to edit menu.lst (to get a say in Grub).  Of
>>course, the
>>file is read-only.  

No, it's not.  It is, however, only editable by root.


>>I cannot believe (ok, I do 
>>believe it) there is no Midnight Commander or anything like it.

Why should there be.  You can do it in Konqueror.

You've chosen a distro for inexplicable reasons, and though it works (at
least in most cases you've described) as designed, you don't like the
design.  Next time figure out what you want _before_ you choose a distro.

-- 
derek