5 years of support..!!??

[Billie Walsh]

On 03/02/2012 03:42 AM, Mark Greenwood wrote:
> Well yes and no. Let's compare where I am with Kubuntu today to where I
> was when I had Kubuntu with KDE 3.5 on it, which must be 3 years ago now.
>
> Back then, the laptop power management options worked. Today the 'shut
> down after x minutes of inactivity' is broken, the 'sleep when I close
> the lid' is broken, and even if it does sleep I have no networking when
> it wakes.
>
> Back then I had an email client that worked. Today I have one that, with
> a great amount of annoying fiddling, will retrieve my email but not
> without using 75% of my CPU for about two hours. (Honestly, I'm not
> making that up, that is really what happens when I start KMail, every
> time. And I know I'm not alone.)
>
> I could go on but it would turn into a rant and that's not the point.
> The point is that Kubutnu - or rather KDE - today is less functional
> than it was 3 years ago. That's not a subjective statement - it's a fact.

I think your issues, as well as others, are somewhat subjective. It 
depends on the machine and software to some extent. I have Kubuntu 
11.10, fully up to date, installed on a desktop, a laptop and a netbook 
and I experience none of the issues you talk about. Sleep works 
flawlessly on my laptop, haven't tried it on my netbook. Power 
management, low battery, works flawlessly. With all the issues I see 
everyone having with Kmail, and because I've used Thunderbird since it's 
very first release, I have never used kmail, and most likely never will. 
Networking is flawless, both wired and wireless [ I just wish they would 
make the GUI for it standard from one update to the next - it's a pain 
trying to find the right "button" after an "update" ]

I sit here day after day and read all about how this person has issues 
with this and that person has an issue with that. I wonder to myself, 
"what have these people done to their machine." Mine works great. No issues.

OK, I'll admit that none of my machines are bleeding edge. Just basic, 
off the shelf, consumer grade hardware. I don't go in for whiz-bang 
stuff like spinning desktops and such.

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