Canonical pulls the plug on Kubuntu [LWN.net]

Canonical pulls the plug on Kubuntu

Posted Feb 7, 2012 9:40 UTC (Tue) by Pawlerson (guest, #74136)
In reply to: Canonical pulls the plug on Kubuntu by phil42
Parent article: Canonical pulls funding from Kubuntu

The same and worse can be said about gnome3 and unity, don't you think?

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Canonical pulls the plug on Kubuntu

Posted Feb 7, 2012 15:05 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (4 responses)

Gnome3 at least tries to work with its users. That can't be said about KDE.

I think they've drifted way too far into Plasma-land to care about worldly matters anymore.

Canonical pulls the plug on Kubuntu

Posted Feb 7, 2012 17:11 UTC (Tue) by Del- (guest, #72641) [Link]

Not sure where you got your experience from. My experience with the KDE community and Kubuntu in particular has been very positive. I will actually claim that no other DE goes to such lengths to satisfy it's users. Are you sure you know what you are missing out on?

Canonical pulls the plug on Kubuntu

Posted Feb 7, 2012 19:28 UTC (Tue) by Pawlerson (guest, #74136) [Link]

It sounds like a joke. Gnome 3 not only broke user experience, but also stole the ability to customize your desktop. It's the last project that works with its users, really. Ask yourself why Gnome is so divided now?

Canonical pulls the plug on Kubuntu

Posted Feb 7, 2012 20:49 UTC (Tue) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742) [Link] (1 responses)

It took me along time to switch from KDE 3 to KDE 4. I finally upgrade with KDE 4.5. Before that, things crashed. I wouldn't recommend anyone KDE 4.0 ... 4.4.
Since 4.5 IMO it's rock stable and beautiful.
I didn't even switch the wallpaper or the window decaration, what I always did before.
It just looks beautiful and is more configurable than ever (if you want to).

Alex

Canonical pulls the plug on Kubuntu

Posted Feb 9, 2012 0:19 UTC (Thu) by lenov (guest, #15428) [Link]

Entirely agree. I have been a KDE user since 1998 (with intermittent escapes to Gnome and GNUstep) and I almost gave up at KDE 4.1. But I'd say for the last two years, I did not meet a major problem except the classical wireless manager issue (and that is not a KDE problem), very easily fixed. And in my workplace, more and more users are selecting KDE over Gnome when they receive their new machine.