Kubuntu vs. Ubuntu
D. Michael McIntyre
michael.mcintyre at rosegardenmusic.com
Sun Sep 16 16:33:14 UTC 2007
On Sunday 16 September 2007, Derek Broughton wrote:
> KDE & Gnome _don't_ generally find your fixed drives (USB connected drives
> are another matter). The fixed drives are listed in /etc/fstab and I
> guarantee the same version of Ubuntu & Kubuntu will find the same ones.
This is what I was getting at with my own assessment as well. I assumed the
bits he wasn't seeing via Kubuntu should be in the category of stuff the
installer would put into fstab, so it should be desktop-neutral.
Now that I re-read and realize he said "NTFS" instead of "NFS" (I didn't think
his perspective through, and I switched away from Windows before NTFS was
common) I'm thinking it's probably something different at the desktop level,
and the user is finding the GNOME way more intuitive for this.
GNOME and KDE really are quite different, and maybe this issue really is a
userland problem after all. It sounds like maybe the GNOME way of doing
whatever this user is trying to do is more intuitive to him.
I can't really understand the underlying issue, since I don't have any NTFS
partitions, and seldom use graphical file browsers for anything. I'm afraid
I can't relate well enough to be of further use.
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D. Michael McIntyre
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