Kubuntu 8.10

Thomas · 11-14-2008, 10:26 PM

What can I say? It's professional, sexy, and easy. Big difference between KDE 3, makes me almost a KDE person. I might be one for a while, It's slick. KDE 4.1 is just as stable as KDE 3.x(more even) and Gnome.

What's everyone else think?

srunni · 11-15-2008, 02:34 AM

I think it's not ready yet. It lacks a lot of the customizability that I really take advantage of in KDE 3.5. KDE 4'll probably be ready enough for me to use at 4.3.

Thomas · 11-15-2008, 10:29 AM

Meh, it's the customization I hated in KDE3, it just had too many ways to do the SAME thing, and it was cluttered.

Enunes · 11-15-2008, 04:04 PM

I love it aswell.

The guys did a really awesome job.

Have been using KDE4 since very early 4.0 and it's definately a huge improvement from 4.0 to 4.1.2 we have by now on Kubuntu 8.10.

I don't have any complaints about the customization on it...

The only thing i can think that can still be improved is KNetworkManager, which still bugs me sometimes. The rest, to me, are passable buggies that dont matter much and i dont have any issues with them...

Still, love it, won't look back

Thomas · 11-15-2008, 04:07 PM

4.1.3 is out.
I'm going to update to the 4.2 nightlys soon.

Phil17 · 11-15-2008, 05:42 PM

I was a bit skeptical about KDE4.1 at first(bad experience with the pre-release version), but I love it now! It's very stable and I can customize it to fit all my needs.

Thomas · 11-15-2008, 05:45 PM

Yep same here, I am not generally a KDE person, but 4.1 has made one out of me.

srunni · 11-16-2008, 12:57 AM

You're probably going to be disappointed with 4.2 or 4.3. The lack of features is not a design decision---the developers just haven't had enough time to add all the features from KDE 3.5 back in.

Emor · 11-16-2008, 09:37 AM

I installed KDE about a month ago, and I just can't stand navigating around it... I always switch back to GNOME or XFCE within a few minutes. I admittedly haven't given it a fair chance, though.
EMZ=]

S.SubZero · 11-16-2008, 11:38 AM

I tried Kubuntu 8.10 and I wasn't impressed at all. Not only was the interface confusing (ie. Terminal image for a group of icons Terminal isn't in) but it just seemed broken. Even Firefox straight off Adept didn't seem to run right and had graphics glitches.

I tried regular Ubuntu 8.10 afterwards and it ran much better. Still not going to win me over from Windows, but it might be something I'd recommend to people who don't need more than Web, email, and basic stuff.