Absolutely, I needed this just the other week.

Personally I wsould take the Alpha right now!

Me too. I don't know about all that under the surface stuff but I do know the sound disappears all the time under 4.2. Dragon player too. I am getting quite frustrated with it all. VLC seems to work OK so I use that.

Not RTFA and spelling mistakes. Thank you for providing the FULL Slashdot experience!

This is my experience too. I want to create a site that non-technical users can create content for and manage. I found Wordpress more effective in this regard than Joomla. I'm sure Joomla is good and will consider it for future projects, but for this one where simplicity is king, I have chosen Wordpress.

What was funny was being told off by another web designer for not choosing Joomla! He certainly didn't grasp the human factor involved in managing the content creation, despite his technical competence (which I am sure is better than mine).

That's a good idea, although I would like to upgrade rather than re-install. I shall ponder that!!! Thanks!

Well, I read the websites and Planet KDE daily... and I got the impression it would be ready for daily use.

It was pushed again and again.

Now I am a lowly end user. I have a network of Linux terminals and users to keep happy. I could have never switched from 3.5 to 4.0 even though that was what I understood to be promised.

I have been very frustrated with 4.X so far and as a Kubuntu user I wish they had held off switching as I have no upgrade path with 3.5 now...

I have 4.2 beta on my laptop and that is looking better and better. But I haven't even begun testing it for my LTSP network as it will be a waste of time until 4.2 arrives.

Don't get me wrong - I really like KDE, a lot! But as another poster said, I can't brag about 4.0 and 4.1 to my windows friends yet as I could with 3.5. And that for me is the mark of 4.X being done!

However, I am counting the days down to 4.2 and awaiting 4.3 eagerly.

The 4.0 naming was a mistake but it really is not the end of the world. We still have fantastic FREE desktops!!! And they just keep getting better. So that is why I do want to say THANK YOU to the devs and keep it coming...

Kevin

I recently solved a performance problem like this on a Pentium IV laptop. The give-away issue was the helicopter-like noise the cooling fans were making.

P IV's run hot, and some laptops have the fabulous cooling design that sucks cold air (and dust etc) from under the laptop to cool the processor. That dust sticks to the copper heatsinks and reduces their cooling capacity drasticly after a year or two.

The easy solution was to stick a vacuum cleaner on the vents. This worked actually but the more permanent solution was to remove the heatsink and clean that.

After cleaning the computer ran silently and at a vastly improved speed. It seemed the CPU throttled down for safety when it was overheating. After cleaning performance was restored.

I vacuum a lot of PC and heatsinks!