about KDE 4.4 in ubuntu hardy

[Duncan]

Wei-Dong Lian posted on Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:26:10 +0200 as excerpted:

> I am a ubuntu hardy 8.04 user, because of unsupported graphics card in
> Ubuntu 9.10, I have to stay at Ubuntu 8.04. So does anyone has some
> suggestions to install kde 4.4 in ubuntu hardy. Any suggestion will be
> appreciated.

You may not find this suggestion practical, but... 

You mention that ubuntu 9.10 doesn't support your graphics card very well, 
so you're sticking with the older 8.04.

What you do NOT mention is whether you've tried other distributions, 
Fedora, OpenSuSE, Mandriva, regular Debian (as you may know, Ubuntu is a 
Debian derivative), Arch... you may not want to try what I use, Gentoo, if 
you prefer installing binaries to compiling from source, but from-source 
isn't after all /that/ bad on a half-decent machine.

That's especially the case since Ubuntu is Gnome based, and even the KDE 
based Kubuntu isn't necessarily the best choice, for someone wanting a 
good KDE experience.  For people with Ubuntu supported machines that are 
all ready used to the way Ubuntu works, yeah, sticking with Ubuntu may be 
a good option for them.  But now you have both problems, newer Ubuntu 
doesn't support your hardware well, and Ubuntu or even Kubuntu isn't ideal 
for a KDE user in the first place.  So really, the question does occur, if 
newer Ubuntu's giving you problems, why not try a different distribution?  
It's not that big a deal to switch, and a lot of folks with problem 
hardware often find themselves switching between distributions a number of 
times, as what they were using breaks on that hardware, at least out of 
the box, but a different distribution happens to support it out of the box 
quite well.

Which one?  Well...

Since Ubuntu is Debian based, you may wish to try them first, if you want 
to stay with a reasonably familiar *.deb based system.  Fedora is a fast 
moving but very popular distribution.  Many KDE devs use OpenSuSE, and 
it's often considered /the/ distribution for KDE lovers.  Mandriva is 
another strong KDE supporting distribution, the one I started with years 
ago, when it was still Mandrake.  Arch Linux is a rolling distribution 
that stays pretty close to upstream.  It's considered a good choice for 
folks who like a bit more control, but don't want to compile /everything/
/all/ the time.  And then there's Gentoo, a rolling distribution, built 
from source but with scripts that help automate the process, that gives 
you more control over your own system than I believe any of the others 
mentioned, one of the reasons I use it, as I /like/ that sort of 
responsibility and control over my own systems! =:^)

So pick a couple that look interesting.  Google them, go to their home 
sites and do a bit of research, then pick one up for a spin and try it 
out. =:^)  If it doesn't work or you don't like it, try another.  Given 
that Ubuntu 8.04 was working well on your system, I'm sure one or another 
of the newer distributions will work well with it too. =:^)

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