Ubuntu with Unity versus Kubuntu with KDE

[Doug]

On 03/09/2011 01:02 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:

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> Ummmm...thanks for this, Cybe, but it doesn't quite answer my 
> question(s) unless what you are trying to state is that KDE is much, 
> much better than Unity, Gnome-shell and Gnome 3 :-) .
>
> (I installed Kubuntu yesterday (with KDE 4.6) and found that it is as 
> disagreeable as it was when I left it a couple of years ago. (Yak! in 
> other words.))
>
> I am waiting until the end of the month when 11.04 beta 1 comes out 
> and then will try it out for myself - Unity must have SOMETHING 
> acceptable in it, yes? :-)
>
> BC
>
I suppose that I'll get flamed for mentioning another distro here, but 
the implementation of KDE 4.4.x or 4.5.x (I'm not sure what we have today)
on PCLINUXOS is very nice, not like Kubuntu, which I also looked at very 
briefly 8 or 9 months ago.  That version of Kubuntu made me puke.
You should remember that the purveyors of Ubuntu/Kubuntu have a 
philosophical agenda of making the product look as little like MS Windows
as they possibly can, whether it's usable or not. (That's not just my 
opinion:  it has been mentioned before in this list a number of times.)
I've been running PCLOS since about last June, and just got a fairly 
extensive upgrade a week or so ago.  (It's a rolling distro.)  Nothing 
major
seems to have changed.  If you're unhappy here, take a look at that.

-doug

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