[ubuntu-za] Kubuntu questions

[Jason McBeath]

If you have your Ubuntu setup the way you like it, you can also just
install KDE and then choose between Gnome and KDE at startup. You will
pull in a lot of Qt dependancies, and you system will have both gtk and
qt stuff, but if you have a decent machine, you wont notice any
performance issues. 

I'm currently running Ultimate Edition on this machine, and it's pretty
much a cherry pick flavour of Gnome and KDE bits. I find it very good.

On standard Ubuntu, I find myself installing qt stuff anyway, cause
things like Brasero are garbage, and k3b works well for me. 

I have been running both Gnome and KDE versions of various *nix flavours
for several years now, so I like some bits of both.

Except for Fedora 15a, I am slowly falling in love with Gnome3...

J


-----Original Message-----
From: Raoul Snyman <raoul.snyman at saturnlaboratories.co.za>
To: Ubuntu South African Local Community <ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Kubuntu questions
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 07:41:48 +0200


Hi Wikus,

On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 07:28:40 +0200, <wikus at cheetah-microsystems.com>
wrote:
> I am thinking of trying Kubuntu. I have only used normal Ubuntu before
and
> build up a huge base of manualsand documents on how to do things. My
> question is , how much of that is the same in Kubuntu and how muchwill I
> have to start from scratch learning again.

Most of the concepts are the same, even if you're using a different app.
For instance, a text editor is a text editor, whether you're using gedit or
Kate.

> 1. Installing software (apt-get and synaptec the same in Kubuntu)

Kubuntu has apt-get, but uses KPackageKit instead of Synaptic.

> 2. Installing multimedia support

In Ubuntu you install "ubuntu-restricted-extras". In Kubuntu you install
"kubuntu-restricted-extras"

> 3. Installing encoders such as ffmpeg4.
> Installing LAMP

You'll install the same packages in Kubuntu as you would in Ubuntu.

> So basically what I want to know is everything under the hood the same
and
> is it only the desktop environment that differs ?

Yes.


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