Research says KDE is Best DE (and my personal opinions)

[Basil Chupin]

On 10/02/12 22:55, Sid Boyce wrote:
> On 10/02/12 07:12, kubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
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>> Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:05:24 +0200
>> From: Waleed Hamra<kubuntu-users at whamra.com>
>> To: Kubuntu user technical support<kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Subject: Research says KDE is Best DE (and my personal opinions)
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>> http://beta.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/what-s-the-best-linux-desktop-environment--1045280 
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> I don't know what they mean by "integrated".
>
>> I am a happy KDE user, and I don't plan on moving away of it. I started
>> using Kubuntu with 7.04. After the release of Hardy (8.04), Windows was
>> wiped out to make space to the new master of this computer.
>>
>> Yes, KDE 4.0 and the first few releases after it were a huge nuisance.
>> After KDE 4.2 was released, I installed OpenSUSE on a second partition
>> to try it out. The main attraction was that I was told in OpenSUSE they
>> apply many unofficial bug fixes, that aren't implemented upstream yet,
>> something that is only done in the *buntu/Debian world for only the
>> extremely drastic of bugs. OpenSUSE was nice, much more stable than
>> Kubuntu's KDE 4.2. But, few months later, I was starting to hate the RPM
>> system, it can never be a match to aptitude. Yast was kinda cool, but
>> for a terminal junkie it was a nuisance. Lots of config files keep
>> getting overwritten by other automatic programs, though I can't remember
>> now what files these were. it was nearly 6 months, and I came back to
>> the Kubuntu world, and wiped out OpenSUSE.
> KDE 4.0 was released with suitable warnings which were ignored by many 
> who slated it.
> Somehow the 4.0 label came to be associated in some minds as an 
> indication of stable, just a matter of semantics, perhaps they could 
> have released it as 4_Alpha or some such, but the 4 numbering was to 
> signify that there was no linkage to KDE3.
> It was never meant to be a stable release and the clearly stated 
> intention of the developers was to get the code out there so it could 
> be tested and so help them in their development efforts.
>
> I use both openSUSE and Kubuntu, RPM or deb - no problem at all. I've 
> even built .deb packages on openSUSE and deployed in Kubuntu.
> Even as a heavy user of openSUSE, I hardly ever use YaST, I use 
> zypper. On Kubuntu I use aptitude.
> Using aptitude or zypper is share simplicity.
> zypper can take shortened directives such as "se" for "search", "in" 
> for "install", etc.
> "aptitude update"                 "zypper ref"
> "aptitude upgrade"               "zypper dup"
> "aptitude remove"               "zypper rm"
> "aptitude hold"                    "zypper al"
> "aptitude show"                   "zypper info"
> "apt-cache search"               "zypper se"      ### Will tell you if 
> it's installed.
> "add-apt-repository"            "zypper ar"
> They are both very flexible and easy tools to use. I flip seamlessly 
> between the 2 countless times daily.
> Regards
> Sid.

My daily routine starts with 4 CLI entries:

su
<password>
zypper refresh
zypper patch
zypper up

and if any new patches or upgrades occur this is followed by
SuSEconfig

Then I get on with life.....

BC

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