Ubuntu Karmic is pretty dang awesome!

Posted Thu, 11/05/2009 - 14:41 by dooglio

I just upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu Karmic. Wow what an impressive OS!!!!! I also moved away from KDE, and well you know what? Gnome works really really well, so much better than KDE 4, I'm sad to say. And I was a big KDE fan up until recently!

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Use it on both my machines :)

by jerryjer (not verified) - 11/10/2009 - 17:14

Use it on both my machines :) p4 2.8 and hp lap[top and love it.Update to 9.10 went ok to. Sad part is that my machines run smooth and fast , but sl do things in there code that make it so slow for me :( For the kde gnome fight lol that is the gui think the underlaying libaries are much the same in speed , Nice idea for the christmas time ,name a windows computer for what it is a WC :)

Okay, I have not examined the

by Dooglio (not verified) - 11/07/2009 - 11:47

Okay, I have not examined the code between the two, but I do have experience writing Gtkmm applications. While I do agree that QT4 seems a far superior development platform to Gtkmm, GNOME is lighter weight than KDE4. KDE seems to add a huge amount of overhead to every application making them take longer. For example. Firefox is slower to respond and takes longer to load! Anyway I don't have to develop GNOME, just enjoy it. The whole feel of the system is slimmer, and it "just works." So I'll stick with it for a while. :-) Though I like the concept behind KDE, they need to debloat-ify it big time.

Yes, (K)Ubuntu Karmic Koala

by Catherine Pfeffer (not verified) - 11/07/2009 - 04:30

Yes, (K)Ubuntu Karmic Koala really rocks. Dooglio, you're a programmer. Have a look at the C++ code of KDE and at the C code of GNOME. I'm sure you'll switch back to KDE really soon ;-).