Interesting read about the future of Ubuntu

[Jonathan Dlouhy]

On 12/28/2010 06:55 PM, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> Boggess Rod wrote:
> 
>>         I've been thinking about switching to Kubuntu just to avoid
>> the whole mess.
>>
> 
> My recent experience there suggests Kubuntu's not somewhere to go to
> avoid mess - there are distros with far better incarnations of KDE
> going, though I must admit I don't know which those are currently. I
> know Mepis has been mentioned as such in the past.
> 
> Kubuntu is a very poor effort at sticking KDE on Ubuntu - Ubuntu's core
> effort is very much in Gnome.
> 

I just finished installing, then getting rid of, Kubuntu 10.10. I don't
have the world's fastest machine but it runs compiz just fine with all
effects enabled. Kwin on the other kept shutting desktop effects off
because presumably they were too big a drag on the system. Even without
effects enabled the speed reminded me of a P3. There are better
implementations of KDE out there, namely PCLinuxOS. Mepis is OK, but the
distribution release is based on Lenny, so the packages, while stable,
are pretty ancient.


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