I'm not giving up on Ubuntu, I'm giving up on _Kubuntu_
Noted. I stand corrected. Sorry about my misstatement of your position.
However, esrblog told me today that when he upgraded his laptop to 8.10, it lost its ability to do wifi. He doesn't know why, and he's already filed a bug report on it. That doesn't have anything to do with KDE, though, because he doesn't use KDE on his laptop, only Gnome.
Noted. I stand corrected. Sorry about my misstatement of your position.
However,