I’ve now been running solely on Kubuntu for about two or three weeks now. Some impressions: it’s noticably slower than Windows, even after the update to KDE 3.5 the Windows key is either a single key or a modifier, not both (so you can use it for bringing up the KDE ‘start menu’ or for going to the desktop (Win+D), bringing up the run prom...

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So at the weekend I installed what I hope will become my full-time OS, Kubuntu. The one thing which this, and my week with SUSE has taught me is that Linux has a dearth of third-party applications. No, really. Almost everything that I normally use on my Windows machine had equiva...

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