Kubuntu 12.04 Precise Thoughts

[macwolf74]

Glad to hear it's all great for jovin and you guys too That sounds like a good plan GreyGeek, and aging system with an aging OS =p. It will be very interesting culdesac, hopefully they are better and more interested with the KDE integration that Canonical was.. although I think Ubuntu One woun't still be on there by default now because they left us in the dust...

Great to know that this will be our 5 year release. Precise from the core the to UI. :cool:

[GreyGeek]

I've been running Precise on this new Acer 7730 since Jan 3rd.

Precise has been very usable 98% of the time. I entered a rough period about a month ago, which was alleviated when I replaced a bad memory chip and updated to the 3.2.0-22 kernel. However, the last two MAJOR UPDATES during the past few days has turned Precise into a sold piece of Precision! From cold boot to usable desktop is 50 seconds (about 25 seconds to the log in screen and 25 seconds to the DE), the splash screen works perfectly on both boot up and shutdown, UbuntuOne qt client works well (although I hate the Gnome password dialog), Chrome displays almost instantly from the app launcher (if there aren't any stale threads in the process list), KMail works beautifully, as does VLC, Audacity, SAGE, K3B, Blink, Skype, Dolphin, Minecraft and many others.

What doesn't work yet is GoogleEarth, because of ia32 library incompatibilities not resolved by apt-get.

We are exactly 10 days away from the final release of Precise 12.04, and this LTS will be for FIVE years instead of three. Since this laptop is only three months old I plan to let it and Kubuntu Precise age together for the next five years.

[culdesac]

With the recent announcement of Kubuntu and Blue Systems, it will be interesting in how the future unfolds. Hopefully, Kubuntu will continue to gain market share, morph and adapt.

[jovin]

Kubuntu 12.04 Beta 2 runs stable and reliable. I'm proud to be using it.

I already set up Kubuntu for two of my family members. I'm helping them where I can and always
try to make them never want to see Windows again.

Before Kubuntu I was using Arch and had another Laptop to take care of with openSUSE. (I converted it to Kubuntu 12.04 )

I'm all honest when I say that I encountered no problems with Kubuntu 12.04 Beta 2 whereas I had a lot of problems with Arch and openSUSE.
Kubuntu 12.04 is truly the best KDE experience to me and I hope I can contribute to it in the future as well.

- jovin

[Teunis]

+1 ;d

[macwolf74]

I don't know if this is the right place to post this because I'm still new, but I absoulutly LOVE Kubuntu Precise.

• I am really in love with the boot screen and the perfect integration with KDE 4.8
• The installer... well hasn't changed much, but it is a TON faster than it used to be.. I think using a USB helped that though.
• The Live environment was fast and simple and I loved the fact that the kernel uses pae by default as well.
• GRUB2 boot splash went from blue to grey.. not sure if I like that... I don't really like KDE 4.8's default colors in the background...

Of course all this praise doesn't mean it was bug free... I did come across crashes and glitches, but I'll report them to help out.

I loved KDE since Ubuntu 10.04, and Kubuntu since 10.10. Kubuntu is the best KDE distro ever; and this release, even in development stages, Is no different. Muon is much better, Telepathy I don't care for too much, but I do that stuff on the web.

Long live Kubuntu and I would like to thank the developers and everyone that helped made it this way. I wish them luck with bluesystems...