Kubuntu vs. Ubuntu

[D. Michael McIntyre]

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.
-- 
D. Michael McIntyre