Hi, I've joined the forum because I've just installed Kubuntu (Hoary) and I'd like to share my experiences. I'm not sure this is the best forum for my post, but you'll see why soon enough.
I found installation fairly easy. Almost dead easy, but took me a little while how to set the swap partition. The look and feel of the UI was great too.
However, I quickly ran into problems. Firstly I noticed how slow it was, especially screen savers. I suspect that it doesn't know how to use my graphics card properly.
I tried the GUI to add a new user, and boy did it screw up badly. At first it refused to start up the app. I also noticed the time was wrong. It looked like a time zone issue, no worries, I probably installed it with the GMT option instead of local time. I try to change the time from the GUI. It asked for my password, then nothing. Try again... nothing.
I don't know what I did, but suddenly those things started working. The add new user GUI displayed userid 500 or was it 501 for the new user. Whether I manually set it to 1001 or not, it would create the new user with user id 0. Naturally it had problems setting up the account, and couldn't create a home directory. The second time I deleted it, it somehow deleted root instead! (Using the adduser command worked fine.)
Since I wanted to set up a dual boot with WXP, I scrubbed the disk, reinstalled everything, followed the kubuntu how to, everything worked reasonably OK (installing kubuntu changed Window's idea of the active partition, but I managed to fix that).
I thought I'd try the music apps. I copied a small MP3 to a floppy and tried one of the apps. It couldn't read the floppy, complaining that it couldn't run "mdir". I tried finding "mdir" from a command prompt, no luck. I was unhappy that the system was apparently incomplete, but anyway, I mounted the floppy and opened the file, and played it. The volume was low, and I couldn't find a way from the app to fix it.
Closed it, tried another app. Played it fine. I didn't adjust the volume. However, it crashed when I tried to quit. Oh dear, I couldn't unmount the floppy. I found the process and killed it. Still couldn't unmount the floppy. Oh well, time for a reboot.
This time I tried to use Konqueror to browse the floppy. It tried to mount it, but couldn't do it. Sorry, I can't remember why.
At this point, I feel like giving up with Kubuntu. It doesn't meet it's aim of being the "best" distro where things "just work", at least not yet. I don't want to give up on Linux, at least not yet, so I was wondering if anyone's experiences with other distos were better than with Kubuntu?
I found installation fairly easy. Almost dead easy, but took me a little while how to set the swap partition. The look and feel of the UI was great too.
However, I quickly ran into problems. Firstly I noticed how slow it was, especially screen savers. I suspect that it doesn't know how to use my graphics card properly.
I tried the GUI to add a new user, and boy did it screw up badly. At first it refused to start up the app. I also noticed the time was wrong. It looked like a time zone issue, no worries, I probably installed it with the GMT option instead of local time. I try to change the time from the GUI. It asked for my password, then nothing. Try again... nothing.
I don't know what I did, but suddenly those things started working. The add new user GUI displayed userid 500 or was it 501 for the new user. Whether I manually set it to 1001 or not, it would create the new user with user id 0. Naturally it had problems setting up the account, and couldn't create a home directory. The second time I deleted it, it somehow deleted root instead! (Using the adduser command worked fine.)
Since I wanted to set up a dual boot with WXP, I scrubbed the disk, reinstalled everything, followed the kubuntu how to, everything worked reasonably OK (installing kubuntu changed Window's idea of the active partition, but I managed to fix that).
I thought I'd try the music apps. I copied a small MP3 to a floppy and tried one of the apps. It couldn't read the floppy, complaining that it couldn't run "mdir". I tried finding "mdir" from a command prompt, no luck. I was unhappy that the system was apparently incomplete, but anyway, I mounted the floppy and opened the file, and played it. The volume was low, and I couldn't find a way from the app to fix it.
Closed it, tried another app. Played it fine. I didn't adjust the volume. However, it crashed when I tried to quit. Oh dear, I couldn't unmount the floppy. I found the process and killed it. Still couldn't unmount the floppy. Oh well, time for a reboot.
This time I tried to use Konqueror to browse the floppy. It tried to mount it, but couldn't do it. Sorry, I can't remember why.
At this point, I feel like giving up with Kubuntu. It doesn't meet it's aim of being the "best" distro where things "just work", at least not yet. I don't want to give up on Linux, at least not yet, so I was wondering if anyone's experiences with other distos were better than with Kubuntu?
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