Kubuntu 9.10 - after a long break

Not to say that I am new to Linux - but at the level of a home user I am more accustomed to Windows. But here comes the time for activating Windows 7 - and decided to touch - what has changed in a couple of years, that I did not put Kubuntu on a home computer.

I downloaded the LiveCD, launched it, looked at it, installed the proposed "non-free" drivers from nVidia, pressed - Install the distribution.

I rustled, set in half an hour, rebooted and loaded me to the console. X didn’t load - I couldn’t find the driver that I installed from the LiveCD download - it’s generally logical - but it’s illogical then to allow or suggest this to the user in the LiveCD - or at least after installing it was rolled back to default.
Well, it doesn’t matter, with his hands he corrected on nv, having a little stuck on the modules and entered Kedy, thinking to himself that he would have thought a “normal” user, whom “a friend recommended - like simple and cool”.
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Everywhere gloss and glamor - the sevens did not stand next to :) Everything is iridescent, trembles, whistles, cubes, pages are scrolling - beauty!

Another problem is the logic of building the settings - I’ve been digging through different menus for a very long time, looking for video, desktop, and other joys settings.

However, finding - a little disappointed. As far as I remember, before everything was allowed to load from neta - screensavers, wallpapers and stuff. Now, only ksplash (the loader does not work, you have to “help” with your hands) and a wrapper for your login (it works well). - after reboot everything worked except ksplash :)

As for proprietary drivers, the same point winked at me from the tray and suggested activating them — but for some reason it didn’t activate the activation — I had to download it from the manufacturer’s website and put my hands from the console, killing X.

Progress is strong, both in Kedy and in the core. But all the same, there remain a lot of different trifles - for example, that I had to drag the switching of the layout to the usual Ctrl + Shift again with my left heel through the right knee. That Shift does not work instantly - you need some kind of response. That selection by Ctrl + Shift + arrow does not work - all this is a little frustrating.

But all the devices of my laptop were hooked up, including the touch keys - which is good news :)

The software is still disappointing. Alltray collapses anyhow, no ICQ client has learned to share metacontacts when it comes to 2+ ICQ accounts, Pigdin is a separate song - what kind of client is this, which you need to trigger sending a message by Ctrl + Enter in .gktrc- 2.0 :(
In addition - I do not know for whom such a giant font in FireFox - the menu and stuff.

I looked at the Plasmoids - the thing is nice, but a little bad - the desktop in the form of a widget seems a bit silly. No plasmoids for twitter and LJ. But now there is a desire to write them: D

Somewhere a handy guishny package manager disappeared who categorized packages and in general was mega-friendly. Instead, some stub remained - kPackageKit.

- In general, this is a post of impressions of a person who works with Linux only in the terminal, running perls, working with MySQL and monitoring tops. Minus wisely - I don’t want a holivor, I just described my first impressions after a long break :)

I will be glad to advice from old home Linux users - how can you ottyunit so that it is more human :)

screenshot with “two” desktops - Konsole as a widget, 'Desktop' as a folder
added link to full screen