KDE Rocks!
House on Red Corner · 2006-01-30
I have tried and tried to not like it. I started out with Ubuntu on an couple of really old machines that were very, very slow. So lots of experimenting with the standard issue GNOME left me seeking Enlightenment. E17 is a nifty Desktop Shell, but still I was running it on an old slow machine. Then just a couple of nights ago, I managed to crash my Ti Powerbook that I got second hand. I needed to use it and did not have a backup system disk for OS X, or for any of the proprietary software that I lost. I did have a copy of Ubuntu Breezy Badger 5.10. So I loaded it up.
Then instead of dealing with the ugly brown and tacky feel of the GNOME experience, I installed KDE. EVERYTHING KDE that was in the repositories. I had been trying to link everything into emacs on my Enlightened Ubuntu machine, but was having difficulty writing my ~/.emacs to do what I wanted to do. Then when I made the Powerbook run Kubuntu, everything got really bright and clear.
I love how Konqueror is a web browser/file system navigator/pdf reader/ftp drop and dragger application. I love how Kontact lets me link email/Todo items and journal entries to documents in my files or to URLs. I like having the crisp, juicy freshness of everything all working together. It is what I have been seeking!
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