Feilamya
Pelennor Swarm THE KLINGONS
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Posted - 2009.11.01 16:35:00 -
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Just installed it. Same ****, different version...
It's buggy as hell, and so was its predecessor
As always, onboard sound doesn't work after the upgrade, and the trick I used to make it work in 9.04 doesn't work in 9.10 any more, because asoundconf was removed for good.
Many KDE apps have changed their user interface for no apparent reason than for the sake of change.
All the more mature KDE apps have become cryptic beyond all recognition, only for to be different from well-known, useable Windows apps.
AmaroK, which has been changed already in 9.04 to look not even remotely like a music player, now also uses plasma (KDE's reinvention of windowing). Also, unlike in 9.04, it now has an interface for playing music, but it completely ignores the fact that sound doesn't work, and only produces silence.
Positive: The KDE network manager now actually does something, and it has received an "OK" button. Previously, it was only a sketch of a user interface with no functionality at all.
Also positive: No trouble with nVidia kernel modules, even OpenGL works right out of the box.
OpenGL apps still have tearing and strange timing problems if and only if KDE desktop effects are enabled, so once again, all the awesomeness you see in videos is good only for making videos.
The control panel has been moved again (I call it "control panel", because the Windows control panel hasn't changed its name, icon or location in years, unlike the KDE "system settings", which seems to deliberately move, rename itself and mutate, as if it doesn't want to be found)
When I start KDE, I get a progress bar which says "starting Akonadi server". I have no clue what this is, and the fact that it is called "server" is disturbing. After some time, I get a popup which states that this Akonadi thing failed to start. If I click the popup, it vanishes into thin air.
(This is a typical example of the way in which KDE attempts to be deliberately cryptic. Only when I found it again in the system settings, I figured out that akonadi seems to be some sort of personal information management framework)
Something is wrong with network support. DNS lookups take very long, opening google takes several seconds.
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I could go on like this, but it is too frustrating. I used to be a Linux enthusiast and passionate Windows hater until only a few years ago, and today, I use Windows almost only for gaming. Perhaps I'm getting too old for an operating system that needs to be whacked with a hammer a few times before it works fine, and I've heard Windows 7 is a great OS...
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