I temporarily switched over to KDE.  I was using it until 4.0 came along and 
then learned the hard way when to duck for cover..

But the nice thing about Ubuntu is that they are slow to get on a bandwagon.  
There is a Firefox 4.0 out but they are still giving people 3.6.16.  I put 4.0 
in a Windows system last night and none of my son's favorite add ons had 
upgraded, yet.

Open office 3.0 was out for over six months before Ubuntu put it in their 
distro.   Let the slackware and Debian people polish it on their weekends.  
The Ubuntu people want something that is ready to go, now.

KDE 4.6  is still kind of buggy.  Things don't crash in it like they used to 
but i had to put Synaptic in it to see if I had a full install.   The package 
manager is not user friendly and you can't quickly see what options you have 
available with it.  It took three tries to get Microsoft core fonts installed 
because you have to accept an agreement and I don't think that the package 
manager in KDE can handle that.  It just fails to install.

Mark





On Saturday, April 09, 2011 07:29:08 am Sean Dague wrote:
> Because there was some talk on IRC yesterday about ways to try out
> Gnome3, I thought this might be of interest. There is a Gnome3 PPA for
> Ubuntu 11.04 (the one in beta now) at
> https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3
> 
> As it warns, there is no downgrade path from this, but for those that
> are brave at heart, it might be worth checking out.
> 
>       -Sean
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