CibbuanoKDE 4.0 coming soon!
February 10th 2008 06:02
I've been using Linux for almost a year now, making the switch from Windows to Ubuntu, and loving it.
People complain that it's not quite easy to use, or stable, which can be true, but I've found, for my needs, that it's much simpler to use than Windows, and it doesn't insult you by doing things behind your back.
In the past two months, though, I've switched from Ubuntu to Kubuntu, and I'm loving that change as well.
On my laptop, Kubuntu is much better looking, has apps that suit me better, feels robust and is fun to say. I'm not really a major Linux player, so I don't really know what I'm talking about, except to say that Ubuntu is definitely a worthy alternative to Windows. Hell, I even play the games on Linux.
What's got me excited, though, is the imminent arrival of KDE 4.0, the desktop environment that Kubuntu is based on. The current version is around 3.5, and the jump up to 4.0 involves major changes:
Read the Ars Technica review of KDE 4.0!
From the article:
"Some equally exciting additions in KDE 4.0 include the new Oxygen visual style, the Plasma desktop shell, the Dolphin file manager, the Phonon multimedia system, the Solid hardware layer, the Kross scripting framework, elaborate compositing visual effects, and the Strigi indexing system."
This excites me to no end. One of the nauseating things about computer technology is the way that software developers become complacent, allowing their apps to fill up the memory and disk space that is available. What happened to writing streamlined code?
In general, it's one of the things that I love about the Linux community... sure, when things go wrong, it's black magic and witchcraft, but the community is friendly and willing to help. Even better, things are always changing. You don't like something about Kubuntu today? Who knows how it'll be in the future?
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