Kubuntu instability...

[Branko Vukelic]

> Wait, so you realize that you accidentally erasing your photos (without a
> backup?) has zero to do with the distro...And I have installed hundreds of

Okay, don't get me wrong. I accidentally erased a bunch of photos because I 
got frustrated while fixing something. So, yes, it has nothing to do with the 
distro. But I was just saying that that was the the time I switched to 
another distro.

> ALL apps? Dude, let's get with some facts, bug reports, SOMETHING. This
> whole thing is starting to sound like a rant without anything backing it
> up.

Not really all. Just some that I use the most, like Kaffeine and Konsole. 
These two in particular are not at fault themselves. I believe that a 
sequence of apps closing, and some becoming unresponsive and being killed off 
triggered something that caused Konsole not to run as it should. Also 
aptitude behaves oddly locking /var/lib/dpkg so no other package manager (and  
even aptitude itself) can't use it. Then there is RealPlayer segfaulting, 
from time to time (not all the time)...

And no, I'm not going to try and track down the faulty bits, because there are 
too many things that I have to keep track of right now.

> My Mom knits all day long and uses Kubuntu all night. She has nary a
> problem, and doesn't even know what a Home dir is...so...

And that has nothing to do with what I do. I don't knit, and I *need* a good 
night's sleep in order to be able to live the next day through. So you see my 
problem. I can't be spending so much time fixing Kubuntu.

> What are you talking about? Arch is okay, but how does it surpass (in
> actual words, not exclamations) Kubuntu, apt-get, aptitude and/or Synaptic.
> Please, let me know.

I don't know. I'm just talking about *my* experiences with both distros. Arch 
just works. Period. Nothing to tweak, nothing to fix. It just works. For me, 
that is. What it does out of the box is okay. As for Kubuntu, I did expect to 
have a bit of trouble downloading stuff that are not in the main repos, but 
then Aptitude started to act weird, so... well, I don't like it when things 
don't work the way I expect them to. I don't have time for surprises. One 
year ago, I'd probably make Kubuntu stand on its head and sing a song, but 
not today.

> How are you "fixing the bits"? From where I am standing, you don't seem to
> have diagnosed anything even enough to say what's wrong, let alone how to
> fix it.

No, you don't understand. I am NOT fixing anything. And I am not going to. I 
just wanted to see if there are ppl who find it odd that my Kubuntu works the 
way it does (i.e., bad).

> The ONE problem I have had on my ultra-tweaked,
> mega-built-on-top-of-including-all-codecs-even-alien-converted-rpms-etc
> Kubuntu is in Dapper, Openoffice would crash when loading attachments from
> Kmail every time. And yes, I filed a bug report, it got fixed in Edgy.

Good for you. If I did try and find the problem and fix it, my wife would 
probably go berserk on me again, and my kid would start to cry. :-) I hope 
you can see my prob. I just wanted everything to work... I'll try to 
reinstall or something, but I'm not really happy about it.