To say that I am disappointed would be an understatement – What I had wanted was speed and more raw speed. Cleaup of driver compatibilities and more out-of-the-box experiences with things like webcams, etc.
Instead what we have is an OS with a weird unusable theme (bug532633), a lot of time and resources spent in beautifying and optimizing the boot-up screen/time (idea 21). KDE 4.4.1 takes up 450mb of RAM on startup, 100% CPU spent on the semantic desktop (doing fast indexing) and still the network-manager sucks. KDE’s user interface has weird interactions like the Cashew and widgets (plasmoids) that take up a shit load of RAM. Moreover, if you disable expensive features like compositing in KDE, the desktop looks like shit – the reason being that the desktop rendering code gets polluted if proper handling of non-compositing is done.
Has anyone on the dev team even used Windows 7 ? Why does Kubuntu (KDE Ubuntu) take up more resources on my machine than Win7 ? Already, Linux has a disadvantage on laptop battery life, compared to Win7 – but this is just absurd.
People are moving towards using thin and light (and extremely underpowered) – and all I see on all support forums is advice to upgrade RAM.
This is crap and I am extremely disappointed.
U’re right. i’ve been using Kubuntu Lucid for 2 days and it crashes everytime i use Dolphin as well as Software Centre. Kubuntu Karmic was more stable…
I am not alone… I installed the Kubuntu Lucid and must say its really very good looking. I wanted to keep it, but Dolphin crashed while copying files and I lost some files too. What an unstable and unreliable OS ? Now I am too scared whether to keep it for long ?
Totally agree.
I loved Hardy, Karmic was already crappy and Lucid is a joke.
To name but just a few things:
– What is wrong with this indexing service?
– Kontact won’t show my contacts
– All file dialogs are slow
– Kile still cannot properly spell-check
– …
I am this close to installing Windows 😉
Kile spell checks just fine here. Must be your installation.
I agree after the update my second monitor wont work, my volume control disappeared and it is generally rubbish. I’ve been using ubuntu since the fiesty release and this is the worst ever. Frankly I’m sick of fixing things. DON’T UPGRADE!!!!
I upgraded to Lucid, my gnome session is working, but kde is a black hole. The plasma desktop is missing, I have my cairo dock running, basically everything stuffed. If this is an idea of progress, then we going backward. As for gnome, the reintroduction of bugs in order to maintain some kind of continuity with the previous LTS is disturbing to say the least. Now my printer doesn’t work, boot time is a lot worse and there are a lot of xsession errors. Seems like Ubuntu is doing nothing but suppressing errors these days instead of fixing things. Ouch.
I’ve been using Kubuntu for quite some time, and currently running Lucid without any problems whatsoever. (Well that’s a lie. There are occasional bugs, like the annoying IMAP bug with KMail when resuming from suspend.) I’ve even tweaked the system without disabling any features or slickness to get battery life at least as good as in Windows. That didn’t take much work at all.
I’m really happy with Lucid and KDE (4.4.5). Now if only Qt would sort out their text handling of long lines and I would be a nearly completely happy man.