kubuntu

It's almost reassuring that Kubuntu still has a lot of the same problems that have plagued Linux since I first dared to dabble with it 8 years ago. These include copy-and-paste still being, well, fucked, errors nobody can understand while disk partitioning during an install, the installation of one small program dragging down 20 dependent libraries with it, setting up an appropriate monitor requiring a trawl through long lists of irrelevant numbers and frequencies, documentation being out of date ("Please 'Log Out' and select 'Restart X Server' from the menu"... needless to say, the latter option simply does not exist), the sound mixer being direly unusable even compared to the ancient Windows volume control applet, and so on.

It's not all bad though: instant messenger program Kopete easily thrashes Gaim and Trillian to within an pixel of their collective lives, Konqueror seems just as good as Firefox (though I'll end up dumping it to get my Firefox extensions back unfortunately), there are a lot of good applications that came pre-installed, and so on.

And incidentally, my computer is certainly not 'fixed'. There's something very, very odd going on, which is very frustrating.