How is KDE 4.2?

[kaldor]

I was absolutely disgusted with KDE 4.0 and 4.1. Far too many glitches and annoyances for my normal usage. People have said 4.2 is fixed up quite a bit, and on kde.org they recommend it for the majority of people out there.

Is it as stable as is said? I would really like to give it a go again, but I find it hard to see that something went from an utter failure to something usable in just a few months.

[Monsieur Gonzalez]

Well, it works for me. All reviews are pretty positive, even from Gnome developers.

You can try it before installing, there's a LiveCD (http://home.kde.org/~binner/kde-four-live/) (Opensuse based).

There's even a visual guide made by the KDE people (http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.2/guide.php.

Thre's no way to tell if it suits you, but I'm not looking back ;)

[kaldor]

The panel just screams "Vista"! =Þ

I will give it a shot sometime. Will it be the default DE for Kubuntu Jaunty testing now? I do not want to try openSuSE's LiveCD, as they tend to change stuff on that.

[Lee_Machine]

KDE 4.2 has been the default since kubuntu Alpha 2. Jaunty has so many new features im excited about. Better support with nvidia and ATI, ALSA 1.18 (added support for audio over HDMI!!) and best of all the new kernel .28 which has ext4.

[mac71]

Works a treat for me. The mutts nutts.;)