First impressions of 11.04

[Thierry de Coulon]

On Wednesday 27 April 2011 07.40:29 Knapp wrote:
> Why did you consider kde 3 to be the best ever? I would bet that if you
> tried kde 4 now, you might want to come back. I would modify that statement
> with Kubuntu and say that you have to set up some stuff first, the defaults
> are a bit off the mark.

You should not bet. I did try KDE 4, from 4.0 to 4.5 (not with Kubuntu, but 
with openSuSE and Mepis); Probably some apps got better, but the Desktop is 
still bloated. Most, if not all, of the "new" stuff, plasmoids and so, are of 
no use to me. It takes an awful time just to "unmake" the way KDE 4 is set up 
to get back only a part of KDE 3. And I love Konqueror as a file manager. I 
am still looking for a feature of KDE 4 that I could be missing in KDE 3.

I'll probably give it another try when Mepis 11 comes out, but I'm afraid it's 
just like Windows: I don't like the very basic way they are supposed to work.

The same can be said of Gnome, although Gnome and AWN is a second best. AT the 
time, I run either Mepis 8 (KDE 3.5), Ubuntu + Trinity (KDE 3.5.12 or Ubuntu 
Gnome + AWN + Trinity installed behind (for Konqueror, kmail, k3b and kpdf)

> > As to the cloud, who would ever have his important
> > documents on the net - not only for security, what if the net is down
> > when you need them? Would you put your accounting on a Microsoft or
> > Google owned server?
>
> I agree BUT I know off a lot of people that do that sort of stupid thing.
> To many people have blind trust.

This time _you_ have a point :)

Maybe I should shut up and follow Frank Zappa who said : 

The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital 
punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of 
everything and let the problem solve itself?

Thierry