I decided I gotta be a little nutty just to have some fun… So I was curious if there was a way to install the KDE 4 core packages to get an internet experience with KDE 4 on my laptop, Suzaku. Sure enough, the process to install it for Gutsy was detailed here: Kubuntu.org – Be Free with KDE 4.0. Unfortunately with my family’s ADSL connection, it may take me a while to install the packages. The boredom of slow downloads is pretty painful or in Bender’s words from the movie “Bender’s Big Score”:
Suicide Booth, Gimme your best shot! Electrocution please, a side order of poison! Helloooo… Kill me, you stupid machine!!! What the..? Local calls 50 cents?! It’s a street corner telephone parlor!
Though I imagine that when the downloads finish installing and provided everything functions… I will probably feel like saying another one of Bender’s great quotes from the same movie:
People will call me a failure! Others however will call me the world’s sexiest killing machine, who’s fun at parties!
Welp, time to wait for the download or even possibly prep for the gym.
Update: 11:20am – Seems it finished… Time to reboot my X session and kick into KDE 4
Well, in child-like excitement, I decided to spin a copy of the KDE 4 Live CD on Suzaku to play before buckling down for a full review… but there was a bit of a problem. I was hoping to directly play with things that involved internet connectivity, but the CD did not bundle in any wireless network apps. From first impression, it’s a clean looking environment. I am really looking forward to seeing it in real action on a production level operating suite such as Kubuntu, openSUSE, PClinuxOS, etc. Maybe tomorrow when I am more awake, I can sit down and play with what all I can that doesn’t require an internet connection… Unless anyone doesn’t mind me coming over to jack into a LAN port to play around with some serious eye candy. Hell, the Live CD recognized my native resolution to boot!
I will leave a bit of humor to close this short post… Nothing more embarrassing than having the KDE 4 log-in and log out sounds just blasting out of your laptop speakers at 2am in the morning and completely waking your family, all because openSUSE doesn’t recognize my onboard volume controls and refused to mute.
I am currently downloading the KDE 4 Live CD in hopes of giving it a test drive and review. I have been more of a Gnome user, but I am no stranger to KDE’s interface. I will assure readers that I will leave my Gnome mindset in a vault and try to focus on the mindset of a KDE 3.5.7 user as that was what my family’s former Kubuntu machine was. This build is apparently a “final” build that should be shipping with distros like openSUSE and Mandriva, so I am definitely looking forward to the experience. With things like the Oxygen artwork and Plasma powering KDE 4, it should prove to be a fun trip. I have been looking forward to what KDE 4 has to offer for the user experience and all the concept stuff has impressed me a good deal.
Now, if the download for the KDE 4 Live CD could finish… we’d be in business.
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