I had a similar experience. I have been a fan of KDE for a very long time and have my tweaks, shortcuts and tricks all documented meticulously for my own use when I set up a new machine or start over or upgrade. And then one day I upgraded from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9. KDE4 was a nightmare. I couldn't find one thing that I liked about it over KDE3.5. Simple things like changing the size of the icons or changing the size of the taskbar or even locking/unlocking the taskbar screwed it up. I just couldn't stand it! I promptly pulled out my Fedora 8 DVD and reinstalled it. I don't think I want to upgrade to Fedora 9 nor do I want to use Gnome. Unfortunately, once Fedora 10 comes out, there won't be any updates available for Fedora 8 and I don't know what I will do then. :( - Vee On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 9:17 PM, <auditodd at comcast.net> wrote: > I've been a fan of KDE since Mandrake v9. > Coming from a Unix command line and Windows environment KDE just seemed to > make more "sense" to me. > > So I have been playing with Kubuntu 8.10 and Ubuntu 8.10 on a slightly > older computer. I had read an article that one former KDE fan moved to > Gnome so I was intrigued. > > An HP Pavilion 541c with a GeForce2 video card. > This is an AMD 1.67GHz processor with 1GB of ram, so it's not a bad > computer (OK, the video card isn't that great). > > First problem... > The computer is on a KVM so the auto discovery of the monitor did not work. > > Kubuntu with KDE4. > This desktop environment makes no sense any more, plus they took out the > option to specify the type of monitor I'm using. So I dig around on Google > and find the proper configuration for xorg.conf and presto I have the > resolution I like. I'll grant you the video card isn't great, but KDE 3.5 > didn't have a problem showing new menus or windows. Every time I tried to > open the main menu, it freaks out for a few seconds and then shows me the > menu. Processor and system load.... Don't even go there. KDE4 is worse than > Windows on this machine and that is quite the "kiss of death" in my mind. > > Wipe hard drive and start over. > > Ubuntu 8.10 > This is Gnome? Did I step into an alternate universe where KDE and Gnome > are switched? The menus actually make sense to me. I can add/remove buttons > from the menu bars without even having to think about it. It still didn't > auto discover my monitor, but that was to be expected. Grab the same > xorg.conf file from before and all is well. No weirdness opening menu items > and the processor and system load isn't half bad either. > > Additional tidbit... > Ubuntu 8.10 also runs well on a duo 400MHz processor system with 512MB of > RAM with some ancient AGP video card. I would not even try Kubuntu 8.10 on > that machine after it's poor performance on the AMD. > > Guess the guy with the "black tower" in the article I read isn't the only > one to decide that KDE4 just isn't the answer any more. Hello Gnome, goodbye > KDE. > > -- > ========== > Todd Young > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20081123/3cd3051f/attachment.htm