Thanks Lee. Your reply is very helpful.

It is incomprehensible why project coordinators fail to realize that
forcing *any* non-essential code-monkey tinkering on users is detrimental.

Shouldn't it be obvious that any new thing that is not absolutely essential
should be an option and never a default.

Do you have or know of any list of clean-up steps one can take to "beat
into submission" all the needless, foolish garbage?

Thanks to your affirmation, I am going ahead with the kubuntu updates (yet
with a bit of battle-worn trepidation).


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> I've been using Kubuntu for some time now on my Linux desktop system and
> I've been happy with it, or at least as happy as I can be.  Open source
> desktop projects have too many code monkeys who think they're cognitive
> psychologists mucking with interfaces and generally making a mess of
> things.  Everything sucks, everything is broken.  This applies to KDE as
> well, but it sucks the least....once you beat it into submission that is.
>
> I have my system set up to do updates every day, and I even include the
> repository for KDE that gets me the latest release.  I've never seen it
> blow up.  I'm running KDE 4.9.4 on Kubuntu 12.04.1.
>
> The stock install of KDE on Kubuntu suffers from the same ugliness and
> "Look ma, visual effects!" nonsense that it does on other distros, but
> these can be turned off, beat down, and changed around.  Once you do this,
> it is stable, functions well, and doesn't blow up.
>
> Best of all, with *buntu you don't have to import a slew of
> quasi-compatible 3rd party packages to get things like mp3 support and
> flash working.  The things you'd expect a normal computer to do just work.
>
>
> Lee Reynolds
> Systems Analyst Principal
> ASU Advanced Computing Center



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