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Unix, Linux, & Macintosh
Anyone tried out KDE 4 yet?

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gries818

Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 5:59 pm

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The newest update of the K Desktop Environment for Linux (KDE 4) looks great on paper (or rather the internet). However after I installed it, it leaves a lot to be desired. It's great that they've worked on the icons a bit but they've moved backwords in a lot of ways.

I'll try to get some screenshots up in a few minutes to show how bad it is.

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gries818

Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 6:24 pm

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gries818 wrote:

I'll try to get some screenshots up in a few minutes to show how bad it is.

Scratch that, installing KDE4 screwed up my system. KDE 3 was good enough for me lol - why did I have to play with fire? HAHA

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c0ldfyr3
Andrew J Gurklies

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:46 am

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i heard that you can install it on windows, however i cannot find the info on how to do that.

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gries818

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 8:04 am

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c0ldfyr3 wrote:

i heard that you can install it on windows, however i cannot find the info on how to do that.

Why would I want to screw up Windows with KDE 4??? LOL

It was actually annoying that an upgrade could be so bad but those of you who have had trouble with Vista I'm sure are no stranger with disliking upgrades.

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Andrew J Gurklies

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 8:34 am

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actually i had no problems installing it in Gentoo. but thanks for the help.

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gries818

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 7:01 pm

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c0ldfyr3 wrote:

actually i had no problems installing it in Gentoo. but thanks for the help.

Yeah, it was easy to install in Kubuntu as well. It was the interface I was mostly objecting to.

What do you think? Perhaps I'm just taking this too far.

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Andrew J Gurklies

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 7:12 pm

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I like it, however a web server is no place for a UI, so i will be removing it shortly..lol
ahh the fun of the governments telling you your not allowed to work.... I HAVE WAY TO MUCH FREE TIME! lol

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imnuts

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:32 am

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c0ldfyr3 wrote:

I like it, however a web server is no place for a UI, so i will be removing it shortly..lol
ahh the fun of the governments telling you your not allowed to work.... I HAVE WAY TO MUCH FREE TIME! lol

I actually like having a GUI on my FreeBSD server box, mainly because I like compiling stuff in the terminal so I can scroll back to see a problem much easier. Since I'm never really doing much else with it, and the fact that it isn't a taxed server, the GUI does next to nothing.

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Andrew J Gurklies

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:43 am

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i have a precompiled kernel for this machine.. just the core components to run the hardware, apache php, sql, and samba.

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Michaels

Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:30 am

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