Hi everyone, this is my first post here at the forum (first of many I believe) and I though it'd be interesting to post on how my first week of Kubuntu Jaunty went.
Now, notive that I'm a computer scineces student and open source lover, and even before installing Kubuntu on my laptop I used most open source software on my windows installation, and sometimes tried the dual-boot way (didn't work really because all my stuff was at the windows partition, so when I loggen on the other one I felt mostly... bored ^^"
Anyway! The first thing I had to do was to get the liveCD working, because my laptop has this silly legacy USB support that prevented the liveCD from even starting properly. It took me a couple of hours trying to find where was the problem, but after that I was good to go.
The instalation went smoothly, I selected the advanced option to make a 25Gb partition for windows afterwards (playing some games on LAN is still a fun thing, and some of them aren't fully supported by wine yet), and so it did. After everything, rebooted and I had a fresh-new installaton o/
I really loved the feel of the new version of KDE, things are really smooth and even with some efects I cannot see a drop on the general performance. But, of course, I found some problems/things that I didn't like XD
First, the network manager couldn't connect to my wireless password-protected router. I'm still working on that for now, but I believe I'll just install wicd to make things work.
Second, Kopete and Konqueror aren't really my thing, seeing that I already used a lot of firefox's plugins and alikes. Right now I'm using Pidgin and Firefox, and they seem very reliable as far as I tested.
Third, idk if it's a problem only with me, but Amarok2 still feels a little rough on some parts; it keeps skipping the sound when something is using heavily the processor, like when I minimize a window with some effect. I installed VLC and so far it's working good, but I haven't tested it enough.
Fourth, the greatest problem I had so far; I installed windows on the other small partition for some lan gaming, and the instalation was ok. BUT, after I installed it, I couldn't boot my Kubuntu anymore. Well, since it should be a simple problem I just searched the web for a solution, and everyone said that I should reinstall grub from the liveCD and afterwards put the windows boot entry manually there. But the thing is, somehow I could mount the Kubuntu partition, but when I sent grub commands related to it it just asnwered me with errors. Believe me, I sepnt 2 days trying every single command out there, even thought about installing LiLo and making everything from scratch, but Sunday I had an idea; I booted with a Ubuntu Jaunty liveCD, and using gparted I could switch the 'boot' marking from the windows partition to the Kubuntu one ^^
After that I still had to put windows at grub, but I probably was using an faulty syntax because when I downloaded the GUI editor for grub (kgrubeditor I guess) it worked flawlessly.
Today I'll try to fix the network manager somehow, wish me luck o/
And thanks for reading this whole block of text XD
Now, notive that I'm a computer scineces student and open source lover, and even before installing Kubuntu on my laptop I used most open source software on my windows installation, and sometimes tried the dual-boot way (didn't work really because all my stuff was at the windows partition, so when I loggen on the other one I felt mostly... bored ^^"
Anyway! The first thing I had to do was to get the liveCD working, because my laptop has this silly legacy USB support that prevented the liveCD from even starting properly. It took me a couple of hours trying to find where was the problem, but after that I was good to go.
The instalation went smoothly, I selected the advanced option to make a 25Gb partition for windows afterwards (playing some games on LAN is still a fun thing, and some of them aren't fully supported by wine yet), and so it did. After everything, rebooted and I had a fresh-new installaton o/
I really loved the feel of the new version of KDE, things are really smooth and even with some efects I cannot see a drop on the general performance. But, of course, I found some problems/things that I didn't like XD
First, the network manager couldn't connect to my wireless password-protected router. I'm still working on that for now, but I believe I'll just install wicd to make things work.
Second, Kopete and Konqueror aren't really my thing, seeing that I already used a lot of firefox's plugins and alikes. Right now I'm using Pidgin and Firefox, and they seem very reliable as far as I tested.
Third, idk if it's a problem only with me, but Amarok2 still feels a little rough on some parts; it keeps skipping the sound when something is using heavily the processor, like when I minimize a window with some effect. I installed VLC and so far it's working good, but I haven't tested it enough.
Fourth, the greatest problem I had so far; I installed windows on the other small partition for some lan gaming, and the instalation was ok. BUT, after I installed it, I couldn't boot my Kubuntu anymore. Well, since it should be a simple problem I just searched the web for a solution, and everyone said that I should reinstall grub from the liveCD and afterwards put the windows boot entry manually there. But the thing is, somehow I could mount the Kubuntu partition, but when I sent grub commands related to it it just asnwered me with errors. Believe me, I sepnt 2 days trying every single command out there, even thought about installing LiLo and making everything from scratch, but Sunday I had an idea; I booted with a Ubuntu Jaunty liveCD, and using gparted I could switch the 'boot' marking from the windows partition to the Kubuntu one ^^
After that I still had to put windows at grub, but I probably was using an faulty syntax because when I downloaded the GUI editor for grub (kgrubeditor I guess) it worked flawlessly.
Today I'll try to fix the network manager somehow, wish me luck o/
And thanks for reading this whole block of text XD
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