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Review: Krazy Kubuntu Annoyances

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 4 comments
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I'm running Kubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (7.10) on one of my main workstations. As with its sibling Ubuntu, it's an endlessly-entertaining blend of really nice stuff and really irritating stuff. The nice stuff is nearly-current releases of fast-moving applications like KDE, Digikam, Krita, KWord, and other apps that I use a lot, easy-on-the-eyes graphics, a good set of default applications, and nicely-organized menus. The irritating stuff is they still don't pay enough attention to delivering reliable basic functionality in core functions like networking and printing. Both often require manual tweakage to get them to work correctly, and even then you may be foiled by a Helpful Daemon.

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Comments (4)

tuxchick ·
Actually you can have two interfaces on a single PC with addresses on the same subnet. Dangit. Too soon old, too late smart. So whatever NetworkManager did to hose my connection, it wasn't that.
ColonelPanik ·
But you did hit on the reason we left Ubuntu, it breaks things. Ubuntu upgrades break things.

At our house it seemed like every new release was harder to get set up and working "perfect". I guess they don't want to scare away m$users?
jhansonxi ·
I've encountered some networking problems in Gutsy also (as has a lot of other users). I replied at my blog as the comment section here is too limited as it strips out most everything: http://jhansonxi.blogspot.com/2008/02/re-krazy-kubuntu-annoy...
Steven_Rosenber ·
Not that I haven't had trouble with Ubuntu 7.10 and 7.04, but I'm probably going to line up with the rest of y'all to try 8.04.

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