Kubuntu Lucid Lynx Alpha preview (including KDE 4.4!)

[Linux4UnMe]

wow what a great review... I never thought it was possible to switch themes and open windows ;) ;)

[brokenthorn15]

@Linux4UnMe Not review, not even an overview that's 11 minutes+ long. In fact, this is a *preview*. Good luck figuring that one out. Troll.

[brokenthorn15]

@Linux4UnMe KDE 4.4 at that time, by the way, was a big advancement from the previous versions where KDE was awfully buggy and unstable. The feel and looks also changed. But I guess you haven't use Linux and FLOSS software that long. It's understandable. And to everyone else, sorry for feeding the troll.

[Linux4UnMe]

@brokenthorn15

LoL Calm down... i was being sarcastic since you was doing the same on my comments....

lol is 6 years long enough? probably not..... troll? far from it.... you started trolling me

But I know your a Tim Fan... must be why

[brokenthorn15]

@Linux4UnMe Hah, now you're trying to level things down. Won't work. Things stand like this, I made a critique, you flamed. The rest is history.

[Linux4UnMe]

@brokenthorn15

LoL yeah your right.... I am really scared mr internet hero.

I didn't flame, i was being a smartass.... You can't criticise a video and say

it sucks when all your videos suck twice as bad... But thats ok... Critique all you like...

I really don't feel like wasting my time arguing with a child over nothing... get a hobby or something mate

[brokenthorn15]

@Linux4UnMe lol why not? I'm a consumer. I can criticise all I want if I don't like something. We're not in a "who's best" race here, kid. Go play with a drumstick or something. ^^

[oldrockmustard]

I installed in a partition test. I'm really trying to leave the kubuntu hardy cause I enjoyed the new version over the but my cpu is 100% and system freezes.

[brokenthorn15]

@oldrockmustard Lucid is stable and LTS. If it freezes, then there's probably something wrong with your hardware or configuration. If I can help I will.

[brokenthorn15]

I'm trying out Xfce now. I think there's a sort of polish in Xubuntu that you can't see in Kubuntu at the moment... I'm not saying it's better but Kubuntu is definitely not using KDE4 to its full potential... since KDE4 came out there isn't one stable major alternative to the Oxygen theme while Xubuntu comes with a lot of very good loking themes...

[skasyshoot]

cool

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[KelvinNg88]

Nice! What are your specs? Does it consume a lot of resource? I heard of many improvements in KDE 4.4.

[brokenthorn15]

My specs are:

GeForce 7300 GT 256MB

Core2 Duo E6550

3962 MB of DDR2-800 Kingston value RAM

Running Kubuntu 10.04 Lucid development branch (will be out in April)

As for resources used: if I keep moving around transparent windows, it uses 15% CPU.

Used memory after 7 hours of uptime and heavy usage: just 1.1GB with 6 browser tabs, Qt Creator, Plasma applets and other apps like instant messenger. Really, this is a lot better than you'd expect if this was running on some other OS.

[brokenthorn15]

Oh, in case you were looking at the CPU usage shown by the CPU applet in the video, it's 100% because ffmpeg is recording (that means encoding at the same time too) the desktop at 30 FPS, full resolution (1680x1050).

100% means one of the CPU's are used at max (Core2 Duo). Having the other core really makes it so that you feel nothing when using the desktop while one core is doing very heavy work.