Feedback on Kubuntu 15.04

[vinnywright]

Whole last night it was OK.
Today it crashed again due to overheating...
It seams no end to the story yet...

have you tried running "top" in a konsole window and keep an eye on it to catch whatever starts hogging the CPU ?

if you have been away from Kubuntu for 3 years ,,,,,and you cant eventually get 15.04 to play nice ,,,,,,,,,,try the 14.04-LTS (long term support) it is rock solid and supported with all the security and bug fix updates until 16.04-LTS comes out .

it has all the super customization capabilities KDE has become known for and was the best of plasma4 before the move to plasma5 (a near total rewrite of everything ) you have coincidently come back to Kubuntu at exactly the same faze as in your original post

After introduction of KDE4 Kubuntu became something unfinished,

Kubuntu-14.04 is the one at this point that will give a person the best experience of a polished all working no hiccups/quirks OS with a beautiful KDE desktop....IMO

VINNY

[NoWorries]

I agree with vinnywright and would also add that 14.10 is quite solid as well. I am not prepared to have 15.04 on my main Laptop but have it installed on a USB flash memory to keep an eye on progress in performance with my Laptop's hardware.

During the pre-release testing, I found limitations in Widgets and Applications and in fact took the step to suggest that they cancel the release of 15.04. This naturally did not happen, so I will wait and see how 15.10 progresses and hope it is more stable.

[xennex81]

I have had Vivid on HP Elitebook 2530p no issues in terms of performance. I almost forgot: 14.10 gave issues with overheating due to "plasma-desktop" application/component/process utilising too much CPU. No crashes, ever. Vivid had a bug that is removed now (they thought it was not a nice bug and it got squashed ) that had to do with logout issues.

Plasma5 changed too much too fast. It will take two years to release something that is release-worthy. For one, they shouldn't have changed the window manager together with everything else, LightDM is actually better but that's just my POV.

So no 14.10 is not quite solid I had to logout every 30 minutes to get it operational again. Plasma-desktop would slow everything down to a crawl in addition to overheating. I was actually intending to fix the issue myself but I am without resources at this point.

[nukedathlonman]

I dunno....I remember 8.10 and the very rocky and rough transition to KDE 4. This transition was better, but still quite bumpy. At least Vivid is not an LTS release. It still might have been wise to have held off at least one more release - that 15.10 should have been the target for a full transition to Frameworks 5. That to me means that 15.04 would have continued to offer a (nother "boring" and) fairly safe KDE 4 desktop by default along with a 2nd KDE Next technical preview (call it a Technical Preview Vol 2).

[artbar]

Thanks vinnywright, NoWorries, xennex81 and nukedathlonman.

In fact you're making valid conclusions and suggestions. I was too quick with moving from Xubuntu to Kubuntu with fresh Plasma 5. I have to admit - my only motive to come back to Kubuntu was aesthetics of Plasma 5. Of course, mass of positive reviews were "the last drop" making me impatient with this transition. Otherwise Xubuntu was and still perfect match for me. But I wanted some "modern nice looking desktop" so madly

Now back to reality - I'll wait for next Kubuntu LTS, back to Xubuntu.

Thank you for your thoughts and help.

[artbar]

Kubuntu-14.04 is the one at this point that will give a person the best experience of a polished all working no hiccups/quirks OS with a beautiful KDE desktop....IMO
VINNY

I was referring to the very beginning of KDE4. Sure, it matured over time and became stable.

[schnelle]

Thanks vinnywright, NoWorries, xennex81 and nukedathlonman.

In fact you're making valid conclusions and suggestions. I was too quick with moving from Xubuntu to Kubuntu with fresh Plasma 5. I have to admit - my only motive to come back to Kubuntu was aesthetics of Plasma 5. Of course, mass of positive reviews were "the last drop" making me impatient with this transition. Otherwise Xubuntu was and still perfect match for me. But I wanted some "modern nice looking desktop" so madly

Now back to reality - I'll wait for next Kubuntu LTS, back to Xubuntu.

Thank you for your thoughts and help.

You can use rock solid 14.04 + plasma 5 look: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php...content=166438

And yes... plasma 5 is far from being ready

[xennex81]

Nasty thing is 14.04 won't allow me to run Diablo 3. There is no support from Intel for those Linux Graphics Stack drivers. This is why 14.10 for me. Now it worries me that "14.10 will not much longer be supported".

15.04 is still a tryout still. There were major (MAJOR) bugs that were only fixed a few weeks prior to release. That is just ridiculous from my POV.

[schnelle]

Nasty thing is 14.04 won't allow me to run Diablo 3. There is no support from Intel for those Linux Graphics Stack drivers. This is why 14.10 for me. Now it worries me that "14.10 will not much longer be supported".

15.04 is still a tryout still. There were major (MAJOR) bugs that were only fixed a few weeks prior to release. That is just ridiculous from my POV.

Newest 14.04.2 point release includes 14.10's kernel and drivers :-)

[schnelle]

And 14.10 is only supported till july 2015.