jaunty the worst ever

[Pastor JW]

On Sunday 17 May 2009 3:03:50 pm Mike McGinn wrote:
> I just upgraded to jaunty from intrepid on my Dell Inspiron Laptop with 4
> Gig of memory and a 320G hard drive. This is the buggiest KDE distribution
> I have ever used - I have not seen such problems with updating display
> rectangles since Windows 3.0. I thought the version of KDE shipped with
> Intrepid was not ready for prime time - I was amazed that Jaunty is
> actually worse.

You're correct but on the other hand it is, even as poor as it is, better than 
Gnome by light years and they are about to get their's too as they dump their 
somewhat stable platform, so be happy!  

> Kmail is another set of issues. With 5+ years of contacts and email stored,
> as well as about 200 filters on incoming mail, switching mail clients is
> not a possibility. One would think Kmail would not have errors at this late
> state rendering text in the messages window. One would also think that the
> people who design Kmail would have learned to put the settings for the mail
> headers window where they could be found. Also, I would think that the
> folders window could remember what columns I want displayed between
> settings. In Intrepid Kmail could not remember the window size I wanted,
> now it remembers the window size but forgets a bunch of other stuff. LAY
> OFF THE DRUGS GUYS!

So far your best bet is to stay with 8.04 even though you'll need to stay with 
an older version of kmail for a bit. Ingo is also working with a moving 
target!   

> So, since Kubuntu seems to be getting incrementally worse instead of
> improving it is time to ignore all the hype and start looking for a distro
> where they actually do testing before release.
>
> Jaunty Jackalope my Irish Ass! More like Jaunty Jackass.

Perhaps they are pushing updates too fast, but I think it is rather they are 
taking too big of bites.  The major problem I see is the trying to become 
mickeysoft like.  That is the thing most of us would rather avoid at all 
costs including dumping a distro that becomes that way.  This is the thing 
the developers really need to wake up to or find themselves out of work.  
Users tend to lose patience real fast when frustrated.  I have tried to 
support this distro in several ways because it was factory installed on this 
Dell and that shows some promise, but then even my good nature can be 
stretched too thin.  

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