Comments on: Ubuntu vs. Kubuntu – A Linux Lover’s Challenge

By: johnwills

johnwills — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:39:28 +0000

check out KDE 4.3 you will never look back to Gnome.

By: Trix

Trix — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:57:44 +0000

I tried Mandriva, and now I’m dithering about which flavour of Ubuntu to go back to, because I agree that Kubuntu is not exactly prime-time. One word about Mandriva: RPM. The package management tool (even the GUI wrapper) is shite and I loathe it. I am definitely missing apt and Synaptic desperately.

By: KenP

KenP — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:39:36 +0000

Just to add that if you want a distribution that is built around KDE (and now KDE4) you should go with Mandriva. The 2009.1 iteration is excellent, really.

By: KenP

KenP — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:38:20 +0000

Reason you don’t like KDE4 in Kubuntu is that its not given the same developer muscle as Ubuntu. Even without all the love that GNOME-based Ubuntu has got, Kubuntu is quite usable. So, I wonder what Canonical developers can accomplish if they decide to choose KDE4 as their default desktop and customise it like they currently do with GNOME!

By: Gen2ly

Gen2ly — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:24:43 +0000

Good to see you tried KDE. KDE 4 is still new and the version you got doesn’t sound like the best. Unfortunately (like was echoed above) Ubuntu doesn’t a poor job of putting KDE on the desktop. Gnome creates a very basic, flexible, usable desktop and does it nicely. If you’d like to try KDE 4, I’d suggest like LinuxLover said and try Mandriva, or perhaps even better: The Chakra Project:

http://chakra-project.org/

By: CaioCaFe

CaioCaFe — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:17:16 +0000

I’ve using both Gnome and KDE since 2002. They are great, but I see that KDE is near of users than Gonome is. Gnome is near of the corporations uses when is simplify a lot of things that a linux lover user wants, as example I can say the time to implement tabs on the nautilus.

KDE 4.0 grows to 4.1 and after to 4.2 showing that things is working faster than ever and ever. On the other hand, I see gnome is still trying to find a vision to the new Gnome 3.0 series while KDE is doing a great job working on their KDE desktop vision.

Kubuntu is not an example of KDE implementation as Opensuse or Mandriva are. On the other side, Ubuntu is a great example of Gnome implementation.

If you want to use KDE, try Opensuse or Mandriva!

By: lefty.crupps

lefty.crupps — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:48:54 +0000

I love KDE 4.2 but yes, the 4.0 release was a rough start (that is why everything about KDE 4.0 said not to use it unless you’re a KDE developer!!). However, I’ve never found Kubuntu’s implementation of KDE to be very good. They (the Kubuntu dev team) limit KDE’s abilities which makes it too GNOME-like for my tastes.

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By: Richie Sevrinsky

Richie Sevrinsky — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:06:19 +0000

I’m running Kubuntu 9.04 (since abandoning the Gentoo Path), but I’ve installed ubuntu-desktop and KDE 3.5 on it as well, so I could always jump between the environments, if so desired. The rest of the family is still using KDE3 and they’re perfectly happy with that.

Here’s a guide to installing KDE3 on a more recent (K)ubuntu:

https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/Kde3/Jaunty#KDE4.x%20compatibility

By: S. Christian Collins

S. Christian Collins — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:22:17 +0000

I have been using Kubuntu (main desktop) and Ubuntu (laptop) 9.04 since they were released in April. My experience is that Ubuntu is far more polished, but a lot of things weren’t obvious until I had to live with each OS for a while. At the moment KDE4/Kubuntu doesn’t seem complete–there are important things missing like easy file sharing, for example. Both the KDE and Kubuntu teams are to blame in this case–KDE for leaving holes in the user experience, and Kubuntu for not adequately filling those holes (Mandriva does a good job of filling many holes with its control center). That being said, I believe the situation will improve rapidly, as KDE development is happening at a very fast pace.

Despite its current flaws, I do prefer many things about KDE and its apps. The KDE developers are thinking big, and I like how they’ve paid attention to some issues that GNOME ignores (such as hiding the cursor while typing–nice touch). In all, KDE/Kubuntu just needs some more time to mature before we can feel as confident handing a friend a Kubuntu CD.