I thought today, i would share my experiences with KDE 3.5

Now i know most people find the easiest operating system the first one they use, well, not for me. When i first tried linux, i used knoppix, and liked the difference from the same old boring Windows XP i was used to, but i did not like KDE 3.5

I just installed Kubuntu 8.04 on my system, dual booting with Ubuntu (no i did not install the packages on my ubuntu partition, i didnt want to) and  to be quite honest, only messed around with it for the simple reason that i wanted to run kontact. As i have a gmail account, and when trying with evolution, it will not prompt for a password, and i dont like thunderbird (that can be expressed in another post)

So, how long did i spend on the system……..15 minutes maximum. Yes, im being serious. I couldnt stand it. I kept finding bugs, and i didnt like it.

I was first prompted by the hardware drivers program to install the nvidia driver, so i did, expecting to have to restart my computer, but that didnt prompt me too. So i unchecked and rechecked the box to install, to find it download the drivers again, and then prompt to restart, so i did.

Then i tried installing compiz, i installed, no hitch there, i was quite pleased with the install, but then, i clicked custom, which said another window would pop up for me….which never happened. So i installed the compiz settings manager, and that wouldnt work. Then, i got onto kontact, while chatting to my friends on the kde IM client kopete,  which i really liked, it has alot more features than pidgeon has, like webcam support. But, by this time, i was too busy looking around kontact, and i really liked it.

But…it was 3am and i gave up on KDE, it was too buggy, and didnt appeal to me. I know people love and hate kde, same with gnome and all the other ones, but for myself, i shall not be moving off gnome. Even though amarok doesnt function right, and this is the same for KDE and gnome, it plays a song with a given name, then as soon as it starts playing, changes the name of it. I gave up.

So, i shall stick with my ubuntu machine for now, i may go back to xp, maybe even vista, but i know, i wont go to kde for a long time yet.