1. The flexibility, functionality, and reliability of Kubuntu 16.04 is clearly much less than that of Kubuntu 14.04.
2. The following are some examples:
2.1. LOSS IN FUNCTIONALITY:
2.1.1. The ktimetracker application which was quite useful and used to work in Kubuntu 14.04 is no longer available in Kubuntu 16.04. There is no comparable replacement for 16.04.
2.1.2. In Kubuntu 14.04, I could save the current time as shown by the digital clock to a Clipboard. This function is no longer available in 16.04.
2.2. LOSS IN FLEXIBILITY:
2.2.1. The flexibility in choosing time formats (I am using time in the general sense of year, month, day, hour, minutes, seconds, milliseconds, and so on; all these are nothing but units of time) that was available in Kubuntu 14.04 is no longer available in 16.04. In Kubuntu 14.04, I could choose a time format that is completely country-independent such as the following: yyyy MM dd hh mm ss which gives me the time such as 2017 05 21 04 10 31 (in the descending order of units). This is no longer possible in Kubuntu 16.04 in which time formats are tied to countries.
2.3. LOSS IN RELIABLILTY:
2.3.1. Kubuntu 16.04 just hangs up and does nothing when the "spell check before send" function of Kmail is used. This did not happen in 14.04.
2.3.2. Kubuntu 16.04 does not restore the previous session after a complete shut down and subsequent start up even though it was set up to do so. This kind of failure did not happen 14.04.
3. The above are only some of the examples of the deterioration of Kubuntu 16.04 relative ro 14.04.
4. Furthermore, I have noticed a steady deterioration in the functionality and performance of the KDE desktop since after Plasma 4.3 and the move to the Akonadi Server.
5. There is no point in making mere cosmetic changes without, at the very least, maintaining existing functionality, flexibility, and reliability.
2. The following are some examples:
2.1. LOSS IN FUNCTIONALITY:
2.1.1. The ktimetracker application which was quite useful and used to work in Kubuntu 14.04 is no longer available in Kubuntu 16.04. There is no comparable replacement for 16.04.
2.1.2. In Kubuntu 14.04, I could save the current time as shown by the digital clock to a Clipboard. This function is no longer available in 16.04.
2.2. LOSS IN FLEXIBILITY:
2.2.1. The flexibility in choosing time formats (I am using time in the general sense of year, month, day, hour, minutes, seconds, milliseconds, and so on; all these are nothing but units of time) that was available in Kubuntu 14.04 is no longer available in 16.04. In Kubuntu 14.04, I could choose a time format that is completely country-independent such as the following: yyyy MM dd hh mm ss which gives me the time such as 2017 05 21 04 10 31 (in the descending order of units). This is no longer possible in Kubuntu 16.04 in which time formats are tied to countries.
2.3. LOSS IN RELIABLILTY:
2.3.1. Kubuntu 16.04 just hangs up and does nothing when the "spell check before send" function of Kmail is used. This did not happen in 14.04.
2.3.2. Kubuntu 16.04 does not restore the previous session after a complete shut down and subsequent start up even though it was set up to do so. This kind of failure did not happen 14.04.
3. The above are only some of the examples of the deterioration of Kubuntu 16.04 relative ro 14.04.
4. Furthermore, I have noticed a steady deterioration in the functionality and performance of the KDE desktop since after Plasma 4.3 and the move to the Akonadi Server.
5. There is no point in making mere cosmetic changes without, at the very least, maintaining existing functionality, flexibility, and reliability.
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