I’ve been using Linux for > 10 years now and I love it so much that after two months of MacOS on my Macbook, I ended up installing Linux instead. Most of the time, I’ve been a KDE fan (I think my first KDE was something with a 2…) and for the last 7 years or so I’ve been using Kubuntu for my personal platform.
All this being said: WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING IN Kubuntu 15.04??? This has got to be the worst Linux experience I had in a very long time! Not sure if Plasma5 is to blame or if just the overall setup + macbook is just plain wrong, but here’s a couple of my favorite things that have happened since I upgraded:
– Shutdown only works not even half the time (Mostly, screen just freezes, sometimes I get a kernel panic too….). I end up hard switching off my computer more often than not.
– Sleeping works for 5 seconds before something triggers the whole computer to come back up and stay up. Brilliant if you are in a hurry and end up putting a running laptop in a case. More than once I recovered my poor macbook with fan screaming from a case because Kubuntu had decided to come back on again….. (and obviously: stay on!).
– In 14.10, when I plugged in a screen, it was like a snip and everything was running smoothly on two screens. With 15.04 the whole system slows down considerably for 10 seconds until the whole thing is operational.
– Probably related to my shutdown problem, but KDE fucked up on me more than once now! Usually Plasma just doesn’t load anymore because something has gone haywire… Fixes so far (each on different occurrences):
- Whipe .cache directory
- Whipe .share directory
- Delete .config/kglobalshortcutsrc.lock
… I should probably invest time in the whole shutdown thing ^^