Hey there Im a little frustrated and are looking for advice.
I was quite happy with Kubuntu Gutsy, so the KDE4 Version seamed a little like too much patch-work and I had different minor issues that annoyed me and which I of coursed filed bugs about. So all I was hoping for with Intrepid was another great release that simply took Gutsy and made it work. In fact however it broke everything that ever work, probably not for everyone, but for me.
*Bluetooth onced worked, now its broken, kbluetooth4 is running as daemon, I can fire kbluetooth4-devicemanager by hand but it wont do anything, neither will hcitool and hidd isnt even in the bluez-utils
*My Webcam onced worked, not in programs like kopete, but at least in skype, intrepid was supposed to bring glorious webcam support, now it wont even work in skype anymore
*Atheros 5007EG doesnt work, even though the open Atheros driver was so hyped, it simply doesn't work and madwifi is gone
*Suspend/Resume sometimes leaves my processes as zombies or 'disk sleeping', forcing me to restart the computer
*The multimedia keys work, but not the percentage display, bugreport was filed a long time ago
*adept 3 is unusable, I went back to sudo apt-get, it might still be alpha or beta or something, but search vlc or jre doesnt find anything and the mouse has to travel ridiculous mileage to check a package go to changes and click apply, thats the biggest step back in usability I have seen recently, the adept 2 design was fast, straight forward, just perfect, the current one needs to be overhauled
so the advice Im looking for is, will there be updates rolling out soon fixing these issues or am I better off downgrading back to gutsy? Now there I had to reboot sometimes after suspend because the wireless wouldnt come up, but at least webcam and bluetooth were working... (atheros chipset is in another laptop)
thanks for sharing your thoughts,
gletscher
I was quite happy with Kubuntu Gutsy, so the KDE4 Version seamed a little like too much patch-work and I had different minor issues that annoyed me and which I of coursed filed bugs about. So all I was hoping for with Intrepid was another great release that simply took Gutsy and made it work. In fact however it broke everything that ever work, probably not for everyone, but for me.
*Bluetooth onced worked, now its broken, kbluetooth4 is running as daemon, I can fire kbluetooth4-devicemanager by hand but it wont do anything, neither will hcitool and hidd isnt even in the bluez-utils
*My Webcam onced worked, not in programs like kopete, but at least in skype, intrepid was supposed to bring glorious webcam support, now it wont even work in skype anymore
*Atheros 5007EG doesnt work, even though the open Atheros driver was so hyped, it simply doesn't work and madwifi is gone
*Suspend/Resume sometimes leaves my processes as zombies or 'disk sleeping', forcing me to restart the computer
*The multimedia keys work, but not the percentage display, bugreport was filed a long time ago
*adept 3 is unusable, I went back to sudo apt-get, it might still be alpha or beta or something, but search vlc or jre doesnt find anything and the mouse has to travel ridiculous mileage to check a package go to changes and click apply, thats the biggest step back in usability I have seen recently, the adept 2 design was fast, straight forward, just perfect, the current one needs to be overhauled
so the advice Im looking for is, will there be updates rolling out soon fixing these issues or am I better off downgrading back to gutsy? Now there I had to reboot sometimes after suspend because the wireless wouldnt come up, but at least webcam and bluetooth were working... (atheros chipset is in another laptop)
thanks for sharing your thoughts,
gletscher
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I would hope not. I would very much like this distro to move from the drop-dead release schedule and send it out when it's ready. I think that would be better for the entire community.
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