I had enough.
By no means did I expect perfection of any sort. The thing was in beta, so it was supposed to be a little buggy. That is not what bothered me. It was the constant defaults that were wrong and wrong-headed. It was when updates changed or broke my settings without asking me. It was how the system fought me tooth and nail when I needed the freedom to treat it like a standard Linux system. I’m a Linux nerd and I prefer the older Linux ways of things. Hey, I still do email on the commandline.
Don’t get me wrong; I still recommend Kubuntu’s latest for clueless users who need to move away from Windows. It will get you what you need with the greatest degree of safety and the least amount of adjustment. However, for most users who are willing to learn just a little bit, I’d prefer they use Debian with whatever desktop they prefer or what can be made to work on their hardware.
Meanwhile, I ditched Kubuntu and reinstalled Wheezy with XFCE. I’m not going to produce that booklet for Kubuntu; I’ll keep referring people to my Debian book and let it go at that.
