View Full Version : How good is Kubuntu 9.10?
Unanimated
November 4th, 2009, 11:58 PM
I changed my filesystem from ext3 to ext4 while it was mounted (silly me.. ^_^) and it caused many annoying damages, so I'm just moving my home folder to my other hard drive and reinstall Ubuntu (I also want the benefits of a clean install). The problem I'm having is choosing between reinstalling Ubuntu or installing Kubuntu 9.10. Is it really that great? Is the performance up to par with GNOME? How system-intensive is the new K desktop? I used Kubuntu 8.10 or 9.04 (I think 8.10) and I wasn't terribly impressed. It ran fine, though. But also, games like Unreal Tournament 2004 and Tremulous run fine (again) on GNOME, and I'm wondering if they'll still run smoothly in K. I have an NVIDIA GeForce 6200, 1GB RAM, and an Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz processor. What I'm really wondering is this - is Kubuntu 9.10 really that great? And does it run as well (or better) as GNOME in Ubuntu 9.10?
edin9
November 5th, 2009, 12:14 AM
It still has some stability issues as of 4.3.3.
bovender
November 5th, 2009, 12:14 AM
When I planned to migrate from WinXP to (k)Ubuntu recently, I performed full installs of both variants. Kubuntu surprised me with constant crashes, even while the desktop environment was loading I was confronted with tons of cryptic error messages. This crashed, that failed, and so on. So I went for Ubuntu, which overall seemed cleaner and much more stable.
Ideally you would try them both on a long, rainy weekend...
SunnyRabbiera
November 5th, 2009, 12:15 AM
Well as far as KDE is concerned I feel 4.3 is the best in the series so far, but i would try a non buntu for a better KDE experience, say Mandriva or openSUSE.
edin9
November 5th, 2009, 12:16 AM
Well as far as KDE is concerned I feel 4.3 is the best in the series so far, but i would try a non buntu for a better KDE experience, say Mandriva or openSUSE.
+1
openSUSE 11.2 KDE is pretty good.
Unanimated
November 5th, 2009, 12:25 AM
Well as far as KDE is concerned I feel 4.3 is the best in the series so far, but i would try a non buntu for a better KDE experience, say Mandriva or openSUSE.
I've tried Mandriva and openSUSE. Mandriva broke (literally... wouldn't load, the OS itself forgot my password and I couldn't log in, many other annoying issues...) and SUSE didn't detect hardware right, even in Qemu. I'm using Ubuntu now, and I think I'll just reinstall it and maybe someday dual-boot or virtualize with Kubuntu. Is Arch Linux any good?
hoppipolla
November 5th, 2009, 12:41 AM
It still has some stability issues as of 4.3.3.
thanks for the heads up! Upgrading! hehe :)
dragos240
November 5th, 2009, 12:46 AM
Well as far as KDE is concerned I feel 4.3 is the best in the series so far, but i would try a non buntu for a better KDE experience, say Mandriva or openSUSE.
What about arch & kdemod?
hoppipolla
November 5th, 2009, 12:48 AM
Well as far as KDE is concerned I feel 4.3 is the best in the series so far, but i would try a non buntu for a better KDE experience, say Mandriva or openSUSE.
I'm not sure if I agree, I mean with Kubuntu you get the wicked Ubuntu base.
What I do is install Ubuntu and then stick kubuntu-desktop on top of it :)
adalal
November 5th, 2009, 12:51 AM
Well, the easiest option, is to install both desktops, compare them side by side... and then remove the other desktop...
Unanimated
November 5th, 2009, 12:55 AM
Well, I found out about 5 minutes ago that I actually have a 64-bit processor. (About 2 weeks ago, I got a new one from my uncle and I didn't realize his was 64-bit.) So, right now I'm downloading the Ubuntu 64-bit ISO. Before I install it, what's the 64-bit support in Ubuntu like? I heard it was pretty terrible in Windows XP, and I also heard that Flash is rather difficult to install. But that information is also from over a year and a half ago, so that's probably pretty unreliable at this point. But still, how good is the support in Ubuntu?
edin9
November 5th, 2009, 12:55 AM
thanks for the heads up! Upgrading! hehe :)
lol.
SunnyRabbiera
November 5th, 2009, 12:57 AM
Well, I found out about 5 minutes ago that I actually have a 64-bit processor. (About 2 weeks ago, I got a new one from my uncle and I didn't realize his was 64-bit.) So, right now I'm downloading the Ubuntu 64-bit ISO. Before I install it, what's the 64-bit support in Ubuntu like? I heard it was pretty terrible in Windows XP, and I also heard that Flash is rather difficult to install. But that information is also from over a year and a half ago, so that's probably pretty unreliable at this point. But still, how good is the support in Ubuntu?
I weould say flash is still rough around the edges, its why i dont use 64bit.
But linux support of 64bit has always been better then windows overall.
edin9
November 5th, 2009, 01:00 AM
I weould say flash is still rough around the edges, its why i dont use 64bit.
But linux support of 64bit has always been better then windows overall.
I use 64bit Flash with Konqueror and have 0 problems.
Slug71
November 5th, 2009, 01:06 AM
Well, I found out about 5 minutes ago that I actually have a 64-bit processor. (About 2 weeks ago, I got a new one from my uncle and I didn't realize his was 64-bit.) So, right now I'm downloading the Ubuntu 64-bit ISO. Before I install it, what's the 64-bit support in Ubuntu like? I heard it was pretty terrible in Windows XP, and I also heard that Flash is rather difficult to install. But that information is also from over a year and a half ago, so that's probably pretty unreliable at this point. But still, how good is the support in Ubuntu?
Ive been using 64bit since Jaunty development and i wouldnt go back to 32bit. Not because theres anything wrong with 32bit but everything works for me on 64bit. Acroread i installed from Jaunty's repo because it wasnt in Karmic's partner and i have the linux 64bit flash installed.
I downloaded it to my desktop and then
sudo mv /Desktop/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
done.
I do have the ia32libs installed too though.
I have Java installed and Skype too. and Hulu Desktop.
qazwsx
November 5th, 2009, 01:32 AM
I use 64bit Flash with Konqueror and have 0 problems.
But nspluginviewer makes me crazy. Constantly eating CPU resources while flash is not even active. I hate writing that killall nspluginviewer command over and over again. That problem was already present in KDE 3. Maybe I am just a control freak :). But constantly using even 5 % of CPU cycles for that viewer is way too much.
Sugz
November 5th, 2009, 01:34 AM
Just did a fresh install of Karmic today (at last) and i am really enjoying the experience so far.
A few bugs here and there and one that has not been repaired since Gutsy :( but overall extremely impressed. :popcorn:
edin9
November 5th, 2009, 01:36 AM
But nspluginviewer makes me crazy. Constantly eating CPU resources while flash is not even active. I hate writing that killall nspluginviewer command over and over again. That problem was already present in KDE 3. Maybe I am just a control freak :). But constantly using even 5 % of CPU cycles for that viewer is way too much.
So don't use nsplugin? It sucks.
xuCGC002
November 5th, 2009, 01:41 AM
My advice? Grab the mini.iso of 8.04, install that, and install xfce4 and xfce4-goodies. XFCE by itself doesn't use nearly as much RAM as Xubuntu does, as Xubuntu includes a ton of GNOME apps installed by default.
Ms_Angel_D
November 5th, 2009, 02:38 AM
I've been running Kubuntu 9.10 Since the RC was released and I haven't had any issues. My system hums and everything is simply put beautiful.
stuart.reinke
November 5th, 2009, 04:06 AM
i'm not sure if i agree, i mean with kubuntu you get the wicked ubuntu base.
What i do is install ubuntu and then stick kubuntu-desktop on top of it :)
+1
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