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Actually quite impressed with KDE / Kubuntu

Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

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Long story short I was forced to reinstall since I broke my Xubuntu install, so figured, may as well give other flavours a try. A few failed for various reasons, either they would not install, or I was not a big fan. So finally I tried Kubuntu 13 (I think? Whatever is latest right now) and so far I have to say I'm quite impressed.

Some stuff is different but yet, I still get the same functionality as the standard setup of having a desktop and start menu. Windows8/Ubuntu/Gnome completely destroyed what is suppose to be a functional work environment. KDE did some things differently but yet kept functionality and even improved on it. I like the widgets and how the desktop mostly acts as a widget placeholder and the folder widgets can still hold icons, but now you can organize them more. Will take a bit of getting used to, but think I like it.

I'm also glad to see the alt right click window resizing back. I did not know about that till I switched to Xubuntu and I noticed it did not apply to the other distros I tried. I don't know how I lived without that before. I find myself doing it all the time when I'm in Windows at work and it does not work. :biggrin: Its just so much faster than trying to get the cursor right on the edge.

Xfce was ok, but I think I like this way better and glad I decided to try it. TBH I'm not sure what kept me from trying it.
 
I think KDE is still trying to get past the "overly bloated, heavy installation" tag that got placed on it a long time ago. I haven't found the install to be much heavier than any other modern DE, and the window management features that KDE brings to the table are second to none.
 
I've been considering giving KDE a real trial. I use, and love Xfce, but Gnome makes GTK3 a moving target, and they're hostile to anything that isn't Gnome. Xfce will eventually move to GTK3, and I don't feel like dealing with constant breakage. Also, seeing the Gnome label is starting to piss me off the way the Apple logo does. Their direction is wrong, and their arrogance is intolerable. They went from being my favorite desktop to something I avoid at all costs :^/
 
I tried those on my ubuntu 12.04 and end going back to uniy with chromiun as desktop.
i tryed xubuntu and i liked it but i never could set up resolution 1920x1080,so far the most stable distro is Ubuntu 12.04LTS over any other distro on my lenovo thinkcenter 72 3.8gbt mem ram 500gb hd i5 2400 intel cpu 3.10ghz 32bit
 
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