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| 750438 | 2009-02-25 07:44:00 | Cheers johnd,I will check those OS's as well.:thumbs: :thanks Mandriva is currently using KDE 4.1.3 (hopefully we will see 4.2 sometime soon). |
johnd (85) | ||
| 750439 | 2009-02-25 08:00:00 | Mandriva is currently using KDE 4.1.3 (hopefully we will see 4.2 sometime soon). Avoid like the plague then, unless you can upgrade it to 4.2 - 4.1.3 isn't even close to usable as an everyday DE in my opinion, though it's certainly better than 4.0. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 750440 | 2009-02-25 08:01:00 | Unfortunately none - there are packages for kubuntu, but I have heard many reports that they are very badly integrated. At this point you're better off choosing something else, hopefully based on something other than purely eyecandy. Oh thats a shame I have been reading about KDE 4.2.0 on the KDE website and it sounds and looks awesome!!! I would really like to have eyecandy on Linux as I wont be playing games on it and so would like to make up for that!!!:D Plus I was kind of wanting to show off Linux as being a nicer/better OS then Vista to some mates who have Vista and keep on raving about Vista like dogs with rabies!!!:D You can have them all installed concurrently, but can only run one of them at a time. Oh ok, thank you for your help Erayd.:thumbs: :thanks |
memphis (2869) | ||
| 750441 | 2009-02-25 08:05:00 | Avoid like the plague then, unless you can upgrade it to 4.2 - 4.1.3 isn't even close to usable as an everyday DE in my opinion, though it's certainly better than 4.0. No so in my experience and a friend of mine. Only problem in several weeks of use has been a minorly mucked up panel which took several minutes of fiddling to correct. Certainly no need to avoid it like the plague in my experience! |
johnd (85) | ||
| 750442 | 2009-02-25 20:58:00 | No so in my experience and a friend of mine. Only problem in several weeks of use has been a minorly mucked up panel which took several minutes of fiddling to correct. Certainly no need to avoid it like the plague in my experience! Then you are very lucky, and probably happy with the 'out of the box' settings and functionality :). You'll be one of the few who feel this way. I'm speaking as someone used to the functionality of KDE 3.x - I now use 4.2 fulltime, but everything prior to that in the 4.x series was a giant step backwards in terms of functionality and usability. I'm not talking so much about bugs here - while 4.1 still had a lot, most of the show-stoppers from 4.0 were gone by this stage. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 750443 | 2009-02-26 00:01:00 | www.howtoforge.com Is this any use? I'm thinking of having a go at it myself. I've tried so many distros, but always come back to Debian:confused: It's open source in it's purest form:thumbs: Why use Ubuntu (not putting them down, They're fine.) or those other Debian derivatives, when Debian, which nowadays is easier to install than windows can be the base for a fine os. |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 750444 | 2009-02-26 10:12:00 | Yeah I recently had a run-in with Kubuntu, wasnt the nicest experience to be honest, switched to the ubuntu-desktop (Gnome) shortly after ... But man KDE-4.2 looks slick! Not to mention the plasmoids etc are cool! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 750445 | 2009-03-05 11:19:00 | Yeah I recently had a run-in with Kubuntu, wasnt the nicest experience to be honest, switched to the ubuntu-desktop (Gnome) shortly after ... But man KDE-4.2 looks slick! Not to mention the plasmoids etc are cool! Strange,I had the opposite feeling from Kubuntu! Now I use Xubuntu though which is more lightweight which is good for us luddites. |
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