[plug] Ubuntu vs Kubuntu

[Shannon Carver]

I think I may have said this before, I'm not sure.  But in my experience at
least, the installation for Kubuntu has been nowhere near as good (5.04,
5.10 and 6.06) as Ubuntu, and after installing it each time I've stuck the
same version Ubuntu disc back in the drive and installed it over the top.

The most recent case of this was a few weeks ago when the first 6.06 beta
came out, I grabbed Kubuntu, installed it and was less than happy with a few
things, it didn't properly detect my sound card nor would it let me install
NDISWrapper to complement my shitty Wireless PCMCIA card (WG511 v2
(Thailand), doesn't work with prism54 driver).  Of course a kernel recompile
fixed these issues, no problems, but KDE in general didn't work quite as
seamlessly as Gnome (I've always been a KDE User, but use Gnome on my laptop
now).

This could be a reflection of my hardware (or me!), but I've put it down to
Ubuntu still being the better version of the 2 distro's.  It does however
surprise me that Kubuntu should be any worse than Ubuntu for kernel issues
and the detection of hardware (as I'd assume they'd use exactly the same
kernel image).

For my laptop, it comes down to ease of installation, and perfect seamless
ease of use.  I'm more than happy to leave my Desktop compiling Gentoo
packages for a week to get it running nicely, and even then, all the
tweaking/compiling/configuring I'll do to it, it'll never be perfect.  But
my laptop is different, I want to stick the disk in, install the OS and have
everything working, the OSX or Windows XP (god forbid) way.

Shannon

P.S Geez, that was an epic :P

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf
> Of Brad Campbell
> Sent: Wednesday, 7 June 2006 3:14 PM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Ubuntu vs Kubuntu
> 
> Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote:
> >
> > I prefer GNOME; you obviously haven't spoken to me =) Install the
> > kubuntu-desktop metapackage, try it out for yourself, decide for
> > yourself...
> 
> What I intended to do was a full machine backup and a clean install of
> kubuntu (downloading the DVD
> now). That way I could just dump back the working gnome configuration if I
> don't like it..
> I guess I have a spare machine lying around at home I could try it out on
> though now I think about it..
> 
> I was kinda fishing for "Yeah I tried it and a,b & c did not work.. wait a
> little longer.." or
> something similar.. which is what I've kinda noticed in my google and
> forum searches..
> 
> I'll give it a whirl when the dvd is finished downloading..
> 
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