Reading through the blogosphere, yesterday I read a headline on blog Linux Grandma that surprised me a lot: «Kubuntu is alive and well growing in the KDE Academy«. How is he alive? Did someone give him up for dead? Well, it seems that yes, many have come to say that Kubuntu is dead, something that Valorie Zimmerman has been in charge of denying, assuring that right now there are elections to elect new members of the Kubuntu council.
Among what they spoke at the KDE Akademy meeting, which is much more than a meeting for teams to see each other face to face, the theme of the Trello cleaning. What they hope is to make it much easier to find a task to work with when we have some time. They also talked about the problems they were running all kinds of tasks in Kubuntu in order to improve them.
KDE Akademy discusses to further improve Kubuntu
The KDE Akademy is a two-day event where teams are discussing Kubuntu followed by several more days of BoF (Birds of Faether), which is another short meeting where they also talk about what they can improve.
From my own experience using Kubuntu, or Plasma To be more exact, when reading that Kubuntu was dead I have remembered the problems and error messages that I constantly received when using the official version with Ubuntu's KDE environment. Kubuntu has a very neat image and uses a very configurable environment, but in my case it has always been more difficult to work with the absence of errors, which is why right now I use the standard version of Ubuntu over another of my favorite versions, Ubuntu MATE . We'll see if Linux Grandma is right and, better yet, they make Kubuntu work better on more computers.
Look, it's good to know that there is still such a large team behind Kubuntu. I started with Ubuntu Unity, and then after discovering KDE, I was completely in love. But it is true that after 15.04 and, above all, after trying 16.04 ... I have honestly noticed a low quality in general use.
I don't know, it's that strange feeling that it doesn't work how it should work, which I suppose we've all had with some distribution, and in my case it's Kubuntu versus Fedora and OpenSuse (both with Plasma). It is that something that, although they say that the project is not dead, it does seem to have been left aside, such as the detail of starting Live mode and the installation icon minimized at the top left instead of being visible.
I suppose it will come from so many disagreements between Canonical and the former leadership of the KDE project, and hopefully now that it seems that Canonical, and Ubuntu of course, are spreading more (like the news from Facebook), it also improves the user experience with the rest of sister distros.
Peace siblings 🙂