Re: Quick review of Kubuntu with KDE 4.x

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Author: Patrick C
Date:  
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Quick review of Kubuntu with KDE 4.x
My advice to you is to apt-get update; apt-get upgrade right away. KDE 4.1
has a [i]lot[/i] of improvements in stability and general usability.

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:05 PM, Alan Dayley <>wrote:

>
> I just installed Kubuntu 8.04 community KDE 4 remix. It installed
> smoothly and looked very nice. Then during online installation of
> more packages, Adept (the package manager) crashed. Just went away
> off the screen. Then it crashed again. Then I selected fewer
> packages, installed them, selected a few, installed them, selected a
> few and it crashed.
>
> A couple of other things:
> - - widgets installed on the panel cannot be moved, at least not that
> I could see
> - - koffice packages installed combinations of KDE 3 and 4 components
> - - konqueror as a file manager seemed to have some kind of paralax
> between the mouse pointer and where I clicked.
>
> Could be my 1.25 year old laptop with ATI graphics that causes issues
> too but, well, it was not stable at first blush and I'm not going to
> keep tweaking. I'm downloading the standard Kubuntu 8.04 as we speak.
> I assume that'll be much more stable with KDE 3.x.
>
> Alan
>
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