It is no longer news that KDE 4.3.0 was released on the 4th of August. I followed instructions on how to install KDE 4.3 on Kubuntu and after a short time my KDE had been upgraded. A lot of really cool new features.

Well, when Ubuntu 9.04 was released, I decided to do a upgrade instead of a new install. The upgrade seemed to work fine... everything seemed to work OK. But I then noticed some upgrades were being held back. After some research I discovered I could get these upgrades installed by doing a apt-get upgrade-dist. After installing KDE 4.3 I started experiencing system freezes. It wasn't KDE as everything locked up. The only way out was a hard reboot. Sorry, I don't have patience for that.

I have been playing with Linux Mint and have been pleased with it so I decided to install it on my main machine. The Linux Mint download page suggests using the i386 version instead of the 64 bit version as it is "usually more stable" so that is what I installed.

The install went fine... no problems and I have been using it for a couple of weeks now. I have noticed on my Acer that very often I will be working with an application and it will kind of fade to black apparently because it is not responding. I figured it was due to the power of the A1 but it is also doing the same thing on my PC. My PC just doesn't seem to have the pep I think it should have so I'm thinking about trying something else. Any suggestions? I have been running Ubuntu for years and there is really no reason to change other than to improve performance. If I can find a big pipe maybe I'll download SUSE.

UPDATE: I had forgotten about the questionable arrangement between Microsoft and Novell. So I won't be trying out SUSE. Still looking for ideas.

UPDATE: There has been quite a few patches over the last couple of weeks and it seemed to have fixed something. I experience applications fade occasionally but not as often as when I first installed Mint.

Tags: kde 4.3, linux, linux mint