[CoLoCo] Kubuntu?

[Brett Trigg]

Hi Dave,
    I started with Kubuntu and have it on an old ThinkPad and I like it.
    On my main PC, though, I use gnome.
    Here are the differences and advantages as I see them:

    Gnome is cleaner but can be sparse.  In my KDE menu, for example, I
have a bunch of stuff that I don't want or need but I either installed
it out of curiosity and didn't uninstall or it came with KDE by default.
KDE seems more "Windows"-ish, which was appealing to me at first.  But
on my gnome machine, I have the programs I want and nothing more.
Having said that, I tend to hunt for programs sometimes if I didn't
install them through the Add/Remove programs.  In KDE, stuff just seemed
to populate in the menus and it was easier to find them.
    I love amaroK too, but have gotten used to Rhythmbox (and would
switch to Listen if it would allow me to have my media on a network
share).
    I love digiKam as well, but I also like F-Spot and gThumb.
    Final opinion: KDE looks overdone to me while gnome looks a tad
underdone.
    It all boils down to preference.  At this point, I'm a gnome guy
with a soft spot for KDE.
    As I understand it, though, you could run the apps you want on the
desktop you prefer.
    Am I wrong in this assumption?

On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 15:09 -0600, Dave Vanderploeg wrote:

> Hey, I have a few questions I wanted to ask:
> 
> 1) Are you guys manually adding the [CoLoCo] to the subject of your
> messages, or is it automatic? I added it this time because I wasn't
> sure, and I haven't generated a message in a while. 
> 
> 2) Does anyone here use Kubuntu? I've been using Ubuntu for a while
> but I've never found a program for controlling my iPod until I tried
> Amarok last night. It's awesome. I don't really have a photo manager I
> like either and digiKam looks fairly good. So, I need to know what I'm
> losing if I switch? Any other generic advice about Kubuntu would be
> great, too. I tried reading some gnome vs kde threads and found them
> to have surprisingly little information. I'm just looking for
> practical advice. 
> 
> Dave.
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