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Undertoad · 05-22-2008, 11:13 AM

B, there's always Kubuntu: Ubuntu plus KDE.

I upgraded to Fedora 9 this week and learned that KDE 4.0 is, like, not ready for prime time. It's just horrible! I'm appalled - I had a great desktop environment and they shat all over it!

I can see how it will come around and be a really impressive thing, as people work on it, and 4.1 may be a giant improvement when it's released in July. But for now - AVOID.

Now this is not a problem for most people because Fedora is absolutely meant to be a cutting-edge thing -- they just say, hey, here's the very latest and greatest of every piece of software running, so expect it to be buggy. This is a good thing, because it gets early and beta software out in the world where people can bang on it, break it and submit bug fixes. But it's definitely not for people who just want to get stuff done. So for the time being I'm recommending Ubuntu.

05-22-2008, 11:13 AM	#23
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	B, there's always Kubuntu: Ubuntu plus KDE. I upgraded to Fedora 9 this week and learned that KDE 4.0 is, like, not ready for prime time. It's just horrible! I'm appalled - I had a great desktop environment and they shat all over it! I can see how it will come around and be a really impressive thing, as people work on it, and 4.1 may be a giant improvement when it's released in July. But for now - AVOID. Now this is not a problem for most people because Fedora is absolutely meant to be a cutting-edge thing -- they just say, hey, here's the very latest and greatest of every piece of software running, so expect it to be buggy. This is a good thing, because it gets early and beta software out in the world where people can bang on it, break it and submit bug fixes. But it's definitely not for people who just want to get stuff done. So for the time being I'm recommending Ubuntu.