Wait.....8.10 is supposed to be a joke right? Am i the only one that found it funny?
Why is no one else laughing?
I just installed 8.10, I'm a long time user and supporter of kubuntu, but this time I'm determined to change. Just installed kubuntu, the installer UI lagged, but that was o.k.
After installing it, the first thing i see? a black and white login screen on top of a 5-minute photoshop job background. I mean, seriously, GET SOME ARTISTS, where did those kubuntu artists for dapper go? This background is pen tool + photoshop + gradient overlay + 5 minute job!
After logging in, guess what do you get? the 5 minute photoshop job, now in BLUE!!! woah!
Yeah, apart from the smooth fading effects. The taskbar appears, and the first thing I thought was "crap, did I accidentally put Windows Vista disk in stead of Kubuntu?"
After checking, no, it was the kubuntu disk, not windows vista.
Anyway, enough about KDE4. First thing, log in, all the yellow popups messages that are meant to appear above system tray icons .....appear stacked on top of each other in the top left corner. Anyway, click on konqueror, and it takes 10 minutes to start. My ethernet also seems to go slower than it should be, but the worst thing was installing proprietary ATI drivers.
That proprietary driver installer worked perfectly on dapper, but this time around, I give the EXACT same input 5 times : start program, wait for program to start, click in ATI FGLRX drivers, click Activate. I get TOTALLY different results each time. Sometimes the program just hangs and exist to desktop, sometimes it doesn't start and gets stuck on "scanning hardware packages", sometimes even got to "downloading" before stalling and not responding.
The default window theme looks like crap: Get artists guys. I'll volunteer as an artist! I'm no artist at all, but I'm better than whoever is doing the job right now!
Maybe half of that should've went to KDE4 forums instead of here, but I'm just unhappy about how Kubuntu is turning from a valid stable lots-of-hardware-support KDE environment to a useless lump of Vista.
Why is no one else laughing?
I just installed 8.10, I'm a long time user and supporter of kubuntu, but this time I'm determined to change. Just installed kubuntu, the installer UI lagged, but that was o.k.
After installing it, the first thing i see? a black and white login screen on top of a 5-minute photoshop job background. I mean, seriously, GET SOME ARTISTS, where did those kubuntu artists for dapper go? This background is pen tool + photoshop + gradient overlay + 5 minute job!
After logging in, guess what do you get? the 5 minute photoshop job, now in BLUE!!! woah!
Yeah, apart from the smooth fading effects. The taskbar appears, and the first thing I thought was "crap, did I accidentally put Windows Vista disk in stead of Kubuntu?"
After checking, no, it was the kubuntu disk, not windows vista.
Anyway, enough about KDE4. First thing, log in, all the yellow popups messages that are meant to appear above system tray icons .....appear stacked on top of each other in the top left corner. Anyway, click on konqueror, and it takes 10 minutes to start. My ethernet also seems to go slower than it should be, but the worst thing was installing proprietary ATI drivers.
That proprietary driver installer worked perfectly on dapper, but this time around, I give the EXACT same input 5 times : start program, wait for program to start, click in ATI FGLRX drivers, click Activate. I get TOTALLY different results each time. Sometimes the program just hangs and exist to desktop, sometimes it doesn't start and gets stuck on "scanning hardware packages", sometimes even got to "downloading" before stalling and not responding.
The default window theme looks like crap: Get artists guys. I'll volunteer as an artist! I'm no artist at all, but I'm better than whoever is doing the job right now!
Maybe half of that should've went to KDE4 forums instead of here, but I'm just unhappy about how Kubuntu is turning from a valid stable lots-of-hardware-support KDE environment to a useless lump of Vista.
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