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 didn’t 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 don’t like Thunderbird. (that can be expressed in another post)

So, how long did I spend on the system…15 minutes maximum. Yes, I’m being serious. I couldn’t stand it. I kept finding bugs, and I didn’t 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 didn’t 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 wouldn’t work. Then, I got onto Kontact, while chatting to my friends on the KDE IM client Kopete,  which I really liked, it has allot more features than Pigeon has, like web cam 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 didn’t 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 doesn’t 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 Windows XP, maybe even Windows Vista, but I know, I won’t go to KDE for a long time yet.