Q: Why does Kubuntu exist?

Darkwing Duck ubuntu at darkwingduck.org
Tue Dec 8 03:27:40 GMT 2009


On Sunday 06 December 2009 11:42:57 am Harald Sitter wrote:
> Hullos!
> 
> In my recent wave of thinking about Kubuntu and how to make it clearer what
> exactly we are doing, I came to wonder why Kubuntu actually exists.
> 
> Now, let me explain what I mean by that. Every project (every useful one
> anyway) is there to solve some problem or improve something, simply put a
> general justification for spending time on it. Kubuntu, being a useful
>  project, must have some general justificaiton of existance, some problem,
>  desire or similar.
> 
> What I'd like to find out is exactly what Kubuntu is supposed to archive,
>  and why other OS or distributions failed at it. Not so much by how we want
>  to archive it or by what means we (want to) measure the successfulness of
>  this.
> 
> If everyone writes a couple of lines (some would call this brainstorming
>  ;)), it might be easier to find a general definition as to why Kubuntu is
>  existing and why it is good that it is existing.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
Okay, to bring this back to the first question, I think I have a strange 
perspective. I was a 4 year user of GNOME and have switched to KDE with 
Jaunty. 

The reason I made the switch and I talk about with my LoCo is that I feel that 
KDE give you more computing and less poking through what GNOME thinks you 
want. To explain I got tired of trying to do a simple task to have GNOME try 
three things prior to me getting the result that I wanted. 

Now, for a new user to Linux this may not be as "easy" but, I think that the 
layout of KDE is setup better for a new user switching over from windows just 
from pure layout. It has less of the "mac" feel that GNOME has (I know that 
everything can be customized however, I'm talking default settings here).

Another point at least from KDE4 is the use of Widgets. I happen to think that 
using widgets to be more productive falls under the "more time computing" 
category again. :) 

Overall I feel that what KDE is trying to do is get back to basic computing 
and yet, making it very sleek and sexy at the same time.

This is why I switched from GNOME and will not leave KDE... EVER.

DW



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