Comment 8 for bug 182786

Last I heard, Fedora was the experimental bleeding edge distro, and [K]ubuntu was meant to be a stable, reliable OS. That's why my daily driver is running Kubuntu. If Kubuntu starts including incomplete, unstable, and bug-ridden software that even the developers say is not fit for everyday use, then I'm afraid that the distro has lost it's focus with it's eyes on all the glitter of "new". That same glitter in eyes syndrome is what causes people to 'upgrade' to Vista and other fatal mistakes. I don't want to start throwing mud, but the decision to use KDE 4.0 is ridiculous and irresponsible.

That said, I just went out to the kubuntu.com website to see where the "mission statement" or "direction" was written. I found this on the "About Kubuntu" page:
"Kubuntu uses the solid base of Ubuntu plus the latest KDE."
Well, I guess that settles it. As bad as the decision to use the not-production-ready KDE 4.0, that decision seems to be out of Canonical's hands, and in the KDE dev's hands as Canonical clearly states that they want "the latest KDE" and not "the best KDE". I find that letting your upstream providers dictate what your final configuration will be to be a bad business decision (like MS does to HP and most other prebuilt systems manufacturers). That policy must be changed before Kubuntu can ship with proven, reliable software.