[plug] Ubuntu vs Kubuntu

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

I've found there's no such thing as a 100% automatic OS. There's
_always_ something you need to chuck on...

Tomasz

On 6/7/06, Shannon Carver <shannon.carver at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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..
> >
> > --
> > "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability
> > to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable
> > for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams
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