[ubuntu-studio-users] Fwd: Re: the new ubuntustudio20.04 and KDE

[Erich Eickmeyer]

Ok, let me clear this up. There seems to be some misinformation
floating around here.

Ubuntu Studio 20.04 LTS will remain Xfce. Support will continue until
April 2023.

Ubuntu Studio 20.10 and onward will be KDE Plasma.

Ubuntu Studio Installer lets you put Ubuntu Studio on whatever
official flavor of Ubuntu you decide, and therefore whatever Desktop
Environment you decide. For instance, to use Xfce with Ubuntu Studio
20.10 you'd install Xubuntu and then use Ubuntu Studio Installer
(https://ubuntustudio.org/ubuntu-studio-installer) to install the
tools and backend configurations on Xubuntu. You can do the same with
Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Kylin, and Ubuntu MATE.

At no point do we ever recommend installing an additional desktop
environment on any flavor of Ubuntu as we, and other Ubuntu flavors,
simply cannot support it.

For those that wish to preview Ubuntu Studio with the KDE Plasma
switchover complete, you can look at the Ubuntu Studio Groovy Gorilla
daily images at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/dvd/current.

I hope that clears things up.

----
Erich Eickmeyer
Project Leader
Ubuntu Studio

ubuntustudio.org

On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 5:30 PM Dave at Dalek Zone <dave at dalek.zone> wrote:

> As  far as I know, from reading the Ubuntu Studio blog, the situation is
> this: the 20.04 image/installer for Ubuntu Studio is still uses XFCE as
> the default installed GUI. Apparently, in some near-future version, the
> project will be switching to KDE - but that has not happened yet. At
> present, the project devs apparently recommend installing Kubuntu and
> then installing the Ubuntu Studio environment package to layer it over
> the top of KDE.
>
> But, with Ubuntu Studio on XFCE, if one wants KDE, one can simply
> install the KDE GUI and choose it at login time. I'm guessing that, when
> Ubuntu Studio goes KDE-based, you'll simply be able to install the XFCE
> GUI and choose that instead at login time (you make the choice once, and
> then it's the default option in subsequent logins).
>
> So you'll probably still be able to use XFCE in the future. And Ubuntu
> Studio remains XFCE-based in 20.04.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> ---
> All best wishes,
> Dave
>
> On 2020-06-24 03:21, Tommy Hjalmarsson wrote:
> > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> >
> >               SUBJECT:
> >               Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] the new ubuntustudio20.04 and KDE
> >
> >               DATE:
> >               Wed, 24 Jun 2020 02:12:19 +0200
> >
> >               FROM:
> >               Tommy Hjalmarsson <hjalmarssontommy at gmail.com>
> >
> >               TO:
> >               hans Schneidhofer <mei-mail at posteo.de>
> >
> > Install Xubuntu, install Ubuntu Studio Installer.
> > Info: https://ubuntustudio.org/ubuntu-studio-installer
> >
> > On 2020-06-24 01:43, hans Schneidhofer wrote:
> >
> >> hi list,
> >>
> >> is KDE mandatory for ubuntustudio 20.04 ? Because I am working now
> >> for
> >> some years with Xubuntu - aka XFCE on the 18.04 - and I am not
> >> really
> >> happy with the idea, that KDE should be the "New holy gral" for
> >> Ubuntustudio 20.04.
> >>
> >> If this would happen, I think I would change to AV-Studio, which
> >> have
> >> the xfce-environment. For shure it is debian-buster-based, but as I
> >> can
> >> read some informations about buster, it is really really very
> >> stable.
> >>
> >> KDE was never "my environment" and also I don't like it for the
> >> future
> >> - also not in connection with ubuntustudio 20.04.
> >>
> >> So I hope, it would be possible to run ubuntustudio 20.04 also with
> >> xfce and not only with KDE.
> >>
> >> bye hans
>
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