jaunty the worst ever

[Justin]

It sounds like you want debian stable. KDE 3.5.10 and a whole bunch of rock
solid software.

Also, OpenSUSE, Fedora, Slackware, Sidux, and Arch (last three for advanced
users only!) all offer better KDE4 implementation than Kubuntu.

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Mike McGinn <mikemcginn at mcginnweb.net>wrote:

> Thanks for replying, I have commented below yours.
>
> On Sunday 17 May 2009 08:00:08 pm Pastor JW wrote:
> > 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!
> >
> I don't know about that. I just installed the Gnome desktop, and at a quick
> glance it is better than the KDE as fas as just basically working. For
> instance, my power manager and google desktop icons have not disappeared
> under
> Gnome. I run Kmail under Gnome just fine. I think I'll stay with the Gnome
> desktop for a while. I can live without the plasma thank you.
>
> > > 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!
> I should have, but when I got the new Dell the display was messed up and a
> few
> other things did not work with 8.04. I read in the Ubuntu forums that 8.10
> worked quite well on the Inspiron laptops, so I went for it. I should not
> have
> gone with KDE 3, I think that was the big mistake. KDE 4 is just not ready
> yet.
>
> >
> > > 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.
> I think they are definitely pushing things out too fast. I don't know why,
> Vista bombed, so there is no rush. I truly hope they get their act together
> -
> even if it means slowing the pace of development.
>
> Again, thanks for your thoughtful response.
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