I've just had the pleasure of installing Kubuntu Linux as the alternate OS on my desktop. It looks great, excellent hardware support, and seems to have all the software I want on the default installation. After using it continuously for a few days I notices a few things that really bothered me.
- Konqueror wasn't integrated into the OS.
You would think the browser and window manager could launch a little faster. Like it as there the entire time. No when I want to go to my home folder I have to wait for a stupid bouncing ball before I get there. I've used Linux and other Unix OSs for a long time. It was not like this before. And really, I don't need all the bells and whistles it provides, I just want access to my files.
- KBluetooth
Something is wrong with my bluetooth. It detects my dongle. It doesn't see any of my bluetooth toys (namely mobile phone and headset). I'm still monkeying around with it.
- KTorrent
The two bittorrent clients I have installed are absolute leaches on the system. I've used azereus, bittornado and ktorrent. the results are all the same 25%+ CPU usage. At extremely modest sharing levels. My windows client runs quietly unless it gets a hyperactive torrent. Then the HDD whirs. But I'm still able to watch my shows. With this, no go.
- Video on Linux
I remember a time when the requirements to run a linux workstation were less than for windows. Now the answer seems to be to get faster hardware. I don't seem to have this problem in bloated, 1 year installed XP on the same damn hardware. Even my G4 with half the MHz and a Mach kernel from God could play a video, download torrents, and have other programs running without a sneeze.
I'll figure it out eventually. I would like a snazzy interface thats friendly. But MS will just have to do. I seem less and less inclined to reboot into linux.
Really, I just want my Mac back :-(
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