Ben Page
February 18th, 2009, 04:45 AM
K desktop environment 4.2 has been released, some of us tried it, most of us that have tried it, tried it by installing it in Ubuntu (I think this is a mistake if you want to see KDE really integrated and running natively). It was nothing special, it looked good, but performance was horrible, bugs were crawling all over it...but has that changed? I thought not, lousy nvidia support with 177 drivers.
But a week ago I have stumbled on Alpha 4 release of Kubuntu Jaunty Jackalope, and guess what..? KDE 4.2 rocks!
I think that future came, that KDE finally is what it supposed to be. I am using 180.29 nvidia drivers (witch installed automatically at start-up by Kubuntus prompt) and the whole OS just works out the box with KDE4.2 Nightly neon shining strong and bright! Now after using Kubuntu when I boot Win7 and especially Gnome or XP, those OSes look like they are from ancient past. Off course, respect to the other DE in *buntu, but I think that KDE is now the best solution for newer hardware. Dolphin is just the best file manager at the moment.
What are your thoughts on this subject? Has KDE4 taken the lead in the DE "race" ?
But a week ago I have stumbled on Alpha 4 release of Kubuntu Jaunty Jackalope, and guess what..? KDE 4.2 rocks!
I think that future came, that KDE finally is what it supposed to be. I am using 180.29 nvidia drivers (witch installed automatically at start-up by Kubuntus prompt) and the whole OS just works out the box with KDE4.2 Nightly neon shining strong and bright! Now after using Kubuntu when I boot Win7 and especially Gnome or XP, those OSes look like they are from ancient past. Off course, respect to the other DE in *buntu, but I think that KDE is now the best solution for newer hardware. Dolphin is just the best file manager at the moment.
What are your thoughts on this subject? Has KDE4 taken the lead in the DE "race" ?