Comments on: Fedora 9 Installed – And Uninstalled

By: KDE 4.2: Stable and Shiny | LinDesk

KDE 4.2: Stable and Shiny | LinDesk — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:29:55 +0000

[...] by ‘looks good’ I don’t mean all those fancy effects. I mean it’s usable – unlike its 4.x predecessors. You can actually get things done on it. You don’t have to hit save every other second [...]

By: Dell Vostro A840 Laptop and Linux | LinDesk

Dell Vostro A840 Laptop and Linux | LinDesk — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:30:02 +0000

[...] package(I couldn’t get a Kubuntu CD). So now I have Kubuntu 8.10 with KDE 4.1. If my last experience with KDE4 has taught me anything, it is that KDE4 is nowhere near ready. Well, KDE 4.1 is much better – but [...]

By: Sumesh

Sumesh — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:43:24 +0000

I’m on Ubuntu – and I hear Hardy is a bit awkward compared to Gutsy in some aspects. I’ve not experienced any, because I’ve started to use Ubuntu regularly only on Hardy (though I’ve installed and played around with Gutsy).

I guess it is a matter of pushing the deadlines and objectives and what not.

PS: I’ve subscribed to your blog – I hope you’ll post more general Linux tips and Ubuntu tips.

By: BinnyVA

BinnyVA — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:12:42 +0000

@Alejandro
Thanks for the update – I’ll try it as soon as I get the chance.

By: Alejandro Nova

Alejandro Nova — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:00:57 +0000

Please, do yourself a favor and retest Fedora with KDE 4.1 RC1. Although a little buggy, KDE 4.1 RC1 is a 100x improvement over KDE 4.0.0. I want to summarize the new features for KDE 4.1 in few words.

1. It WORKS.
2. KMail, Kontact, KOrganizer and the rest of KDE-PIM are all native.
3. You have the FolderView plasmoid. Try it, and you’ll see after 15 minutes that your existence without it was sad and unmeaningful, and you’ll have something more to convince Windows Bostaâ„¢ fans out there
4. You can configure your Plasma desktop to your likings, it is fast (Sempron 2500, no dual core monster with gigs of RAM here) and 3/4 of all meaningful settings are NOT missing now .

Note: “Bosta” is a south american word meaning, literally, “a pile of bullshit”. It is meant to replace “Vista”, and sounds alike too!

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:24:38 +0000

I understand Fedora’s stated objective is to be ‘leading edge’. Another one of their objectives is ‘just works.’ Well, it’s not happening this time. Not only is KDE4 an epic disaster for all involved, xen virtualization doesn’t work either. This release is dead on arrival. Take the author’s advice and just dump it immediately. I made the mistake of fighting it for a few weeks and now I’m so frustrated I’m dumping the whole mess for another distro (looking at CentOS or Ubuntu)

By: Sathya

Sathya — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:01:05 +0000

I agree. Its sad that I wont be upgrading to openSUSE 11 because of KDE4 – its not yet ready for primetime

By: jason

jason — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:49:05 +0000

yes, I agree, I installed 9 and then within one night, I decided back to Fedora 8, KDE4 sucks!

By: nongeekboy

nongeekboy — Wed, 21 May 2008 09:33:21 +0000

I’ve installed KDE4 on Kubuntu, and your totally right, there are to many futures that are missing (yet) from KDE4. Also, on Kubuntu, KDE4 crashed quite often. So, as you said KDE4 “its not for actual use”. Too bad you post this article after my experience with KDE4 :p