Kubuntu 8.10 is Official: Color Me "Meh"

I don’t personally know many people who are bigger fans or proponents of KDE than I am.  I think it’s fantastic.  I love just about everything about it.

Except KDE 4.  It’s just not that exciting to me.  The new features aren’t that important to me and as a whole the desktop performs rather pitifully on Kubuntu 8.10.  I’m running an Intel Core 2 Duo with 2 Gigs of RAM and a nVidia 8600M GT with 256MB of RAM.  If that’s not enough of a system then perhaps we need to rename this release to “Kubuntu 8.10, Vista”.  On a side note, this computer runs Vista without a hitch.

The culprit could be just about any combination of lots of things.  KDE 4 may not be fully baked.  Kubuntu may not have implemented it well.  It may not deal well with Compiz.  However, it doesn’t really matter to me since there isn’t a compelling feature that would make me want to find out so that I can move.

Frankly 8.10 reminds me of 7.04.  Much ado about nothing except moving back to the previous release.  If they follow that same trend, however, 9.04 will be as fantastic as 7.10 was.

Thankfully for me (and the many others I suspect share my opinion) 8.04 was a long term support (LTS) release, so we have another year to hope the bugs get ironed out of KDE 4.

PS: Am I the only one who things the new desktop background looks like a bunch of hair under a microscope?