Kubuntu was my first distro that I really liked. It was almost cutting-edge, based on Debian, fast and stable. And it had the Kde 3. The best desktop environment ever. But now, Kde 4 has been released and kubuntu is moving to use kde 4. Now it is time to me to change distro.

Old kubuntu 8.04 is starting to get old and I have found some unstability (meaning random crashes and freezing for 2 sec once  on a month(So, it is still much more stable than windows)). I don’t want to move to latest Kubuntu, because it has the Kde 4, I don’t want to  continue using of older version of Kubuntu, because it is old.

I have tried to use Kde 4 for couple of times. I have found it unfinished and weird. Kde 4 is trying to be more newbie friendly, and thats not a good thing. Example dolphin. Konqueror is much better and it has much more features. Dolphin is something that could be on gnome, not in kde.

In kde 3 I can change almost every setting, I can modify my desktop to be just like I want. Kde 3 is desktop environment for power users. Kde 4 is something for regular users. Kde 4 is too simple for me!

So moving to ubuntu isn’t a option, because, well, it uses gnome. I have decided to move to the Debian, because it is stable. I think I install something like wmii or xfce to it. Yes, I could get xubuntu, but I think debian is more stable and xubuntu is based on Debian, so there is no big difference.

I really don’t know why I hate gnome, I just hate it. After moving from Kubuntu to Ubuntu, my productivity have drop dramatically and my computer have become unstable and slow. There is so many little things that I don’t like on gnome, and just 3 things why I like gnome.

First things I like on Gnome:

• Dropbox works (It requires nautilus)
• Firefox looks nice without changing theme (on kde with default settings, it looks horrible)
• Compiz works well

And then the bigger list, why I hate Gnome:

• Task manager/System managing
• Its slow (on my computer at least)
• It is unstable (KDE is stabler.)
• I don’t like panel system
• I don’t like nautilus
• I don’t like “simplicity”
• I don’t like terminal emulator
• I don’t like menus. (applications/places/system)
• I don’t like default colors
• I want my Amarok in native environment
• I want konqueror!

Yes, many things aren’t so big and can be fixed, but I like KDE, it works on me better than Gnome. I hate Gnome, but someone else may like it. (?)

So I will install something to my current system, Wmii or KDE. And when next Kubuntu release comes out, I will and download it and install it.

Update: installed kubuntu 8.04 now happy with it