Kubuntu 10.10 - A New Low

[Andrew Mason]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc at arcor.de> wrote:
> I installed the recently released Kubuntu 10.10 on a machine just to see
> if Canonical got a clue by now on how to create a KDE desktop.
>
> I wish I hadn't.  There's so much breakage even after 15 minutes of
> using it, it's not even funny.  Fonts look *atrocious* because they're
> totally unconfigured.  Guess what?  They look beautiful in Ubuntu since
> there they've been configured correctly.  Of course not in Kubuntu.
> Logging out of KDE leaves you with a screen of nothing and need to
> reboot in order to log back in.  Of course on Ubuntu it works perfectly.
>  Turning up the sound volume to 100% still results in sounds being
> barely audible.  No problem with this on Ubuntu though.  Changing the
> resolution from 800x600 to 1280x1024 only works temporarily; after a
> reboot, it's back to 800x600.  Guess what, no problems with this on Ubuntu.
>
> So I have to wonder: what the heck?  Canonical, please stop providing
> Kubuntu completely, because it's obvious the people you picked to create
> it are either totally incompetent or simply morons (because even if you
> go with vanilla, upstream packages and don't try to "tweak" anything, it
> works much, much better than this.)  Save users the headache and you the
> embarrassment.
>
> (No, I'm not an Kubuntu user.  Just wanted to check it out so I can see
> whether I can recommend it to people.)
>

I just installed maverick last night and it seemed ok to me. My fonts
were fine, my resolution was correct and well to be honest my desktop
system was working perfectly. I'm sure i'll hit a few things as i use
it but I was pretty impressed at how smooth it was. I am unsure why
you're system turned out like that however this is my second Kubuntu
maverick install and I couldn't be happier. I've heard only good
things so far, until i read your email :)

I'm sorry you've had a bad experience. If you would like to help
Kubuntu to improve I'd suggest filing some bug reports with each of
the issues you're encountering and perhaps we can work out why you're
having a bad experience and work to fix it. If not, then I am sure
there are some great distros which will better suit your needs.
Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, OpenSuse. OpenSuSe tend to have a reputation
for delivering a great KDE experience so perhaps you might like to try
that first if you're interested in KDE.

I certainly don't think anyone is wasting their time on Kubuntu. There
are alot of happy users of the system and at the end of the day no one
is forcing you to use Kubuntu.

kind regards
Andrew
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