[plug] Flame war bait - Ubuntu vs Kubuntu

[Mr Shayne]

Part of what I like about Ubuntu is also what I like about gnome, and this 
is a personal thing btw, is that its minimalism seems to get out the way 
and let one work.

Because of that I really am not keen on this whole kububtu thing. What KDE 
does well is have heaps of usefull stuff. What Gnome does is keep it 
simple and effective. I think the gnome philosophy is more in tune with 
ubuntu , whereas gnome is more in tune with the likes of Knoppix.

But thats just my feeling. Your mileage may vary.

--
Freedom's just another word for something new to regulate

On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Richard Meyer wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been noticing this phenomenon of Ubuntu, and decided to install it
> and try it - just to give it a go - I'm trying to get up to speed on
> Gentoo atm, so I don't have a lot of time to play.
>
> I installed it and, to be honest, I was very impressed. I even like the
> brown colour scheme ;-)
>
> The only thing I didn't like was the fact that it had Gnome as the
> desktop - I'm much more used to KDE (I liked the way Gnome was set up,
> and I would be able to use it, I'm sure), so I decided to try Kubuntu.
>
> Now, my impressions were somewhat different - I'd have to say that this
> was the poor relation of the pair. Nothing seemed to work nicely. Ubuntu
> set up my apt repositories as close as possible (all .au sites), Kubuntu
> wants to talk to sites in the US, which don't seem to be answering).
>
> Ubuntu allows you to make system changes - DHCP to static IP's with very
> little problem - Kubuntu tells me to click on the "Work as
> administrator" button, which I can't see, even after hiding the KDE
> taskbar. It falls outside my screen when I run at 1024x768 - I could
> carry on. There's no synaptic by default for example.
>
> All you guys who are passionate about Ubuntu - are any of you using
> Kubuntu?
>
> -- 
> Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>
> Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity.  It
> eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the
> business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation.
>                -- Johnny Hart
>
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>
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