Linux Distro, with the following

[O. Sinclair]

On 26/06/2015 23:04, Pastor JW wrote:
> 
> 
> On 06/26/2015 05:15 AM, Billie Walsh wrote:
>> On 06/26/2015 02:41 AM, Luca Olivetti wrote:
>>> El 26/06/15 a les 08:27, Georgi Kourtev ha escrit:
>>>
>>>> I would strongly recommend Kubuntu.  I moved from Windows to Kubuntu
>>>> back in
>>>> 2008 and it was so much intuitive and easy to use so now almost all
>>>> of my PC
>>>> (incl my office) run on it.  Nice graphics, not resource consuming,
>>>> very secure
>>>> and excellent for network jobs. It has all needed applications you
>>>> can need.
>>>>
>>>> Kubuntu has matured a lot in recent years and these days practically
>>>> you do
>>>> not need to go the the average user scary terminal to do tings --
>>>> all is
>>>> pretty much graphical.  Try and I am sure you would never look back to
>>>> Windows.
>>>
>>> Maybe that's true for previous versions.
>>> 15.05 comes with a kde version that's, to say it in a nice way,
>>> "highly experimental" (which is an euphemism to say that almost
>>> nothing works as it should).
>>> Give mageia a try, version 5 is just out and it's quite nice.
>>>
>>> Bye
>>
>> Being a relative newcomer to Linux, about 2000/2001, I tend to stick
>> with the LTS versions, 14.04 is the latest. LTS versions are supported
>> for five years but, I think, new LTS versions come out about every two
>> years so next April should see the next LTS release. The LTS releases,
>> as a general rule, are the most stable and bug free.
>>
> I agree LTS versions are the way to go if you are wanting a stable
> working version as opposed to experimentation type version.  I need a
> solid working version for what I do and not  a "bleeding edge" one.  KDE
> is the best of them except when a brand new very buggy KDE version was
> included in a Ubuntu LTS distro.  A bad move by the LTS guys who seem to
> think only the Gnome version matters.  However, when Gnome updated they
> had the very same problems as they had with KDE a few years earlier.
> Really, LTS versions should never come out with unproven GUI overlays. 
> KDE works much better than Gnome on hardware that is not the new latest
> and greatest every year.
> 
As far as I know 14.04 is the LTS release and it uses the stable KDE4
(as does release 14.10). 15.04 is NOT an LTS release, neither will 15.10
be. Next expected LTS is 16.04

Kind regards,
Sinclair