Ubuntu with Unity versus Kubuntu with KDE

[Basil Chupin]

On 09/03/2011 17:43, Doug wrote:
> On 03/09/2011 01:02 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>
> /snip/
>> 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.

Thanks for this.

I'm very happy with Ubuntu - it's just that all the talk about Unity has 
me a bit concerned (although the story goes that the "classic" Gnome 
will still be available (but for how long?).

Anyway, I went to have a look at PCLinux and....... not totally 
impressed mainly because the latest release was last December and it 
seems to be using a kernel version which has long been progressed to 
x.36.x and not the x.33. PCLOS is using.

(To add to all this, my ISP seems to be having some hassles as my 
download speed has dropped to just over dial-up speed and I wasn't 
prepared to download the ~700MB of PCLOS at this speed :-( . I'll see 
what happens after next Sunday when the ISP has put thru some upgrades 
at my local exchange.)

BC

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                   Bender, Futurama.