Ubuntu or Kubuntu?

[..::| Dave89 |::..]

I've been using Ubuntu 9.04 on and off over the past few months, and was thinking of switching over to Kubuntu 9.10, since I used KDE years ago in Xandros, and really liked it. What are the advantages (besides more eye candy) of KDE over GNOME? I seem to remember it being more customizable than GNOME.

[kellemes]

For me KDE is more customizable indeed, it gives me (the user) all the power. Also, when setup right, it's faster and more responsive then Gnome.

It doesn't matter what *buntu you install on your system, you can install KDE and Gnome side by side and choose what to use at login.

[saltmore]

Kubuntu is not on par atm. It has some nice features but not quite there.

[Gen2ly]

Having more options and since KDE 4 was done alot from the ground up, it's gonna have more bugs then the default gnome you are used to. The new Kubuntu has come along what from previous versions, but is you want kde, you should probably think about another distro that specializes in it, at least until the next release if good progress is made.

[MelDJ]

see:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_X_Window_System_desktop_environments

[..::| Dave89 |::..]

I download Kubuntu 9.10, I like what I see so far, but I have a couple questions: I can't seem to get VirtualBox Guest Additions installed, in Ubuntu 9.04 this was easy. Also the Firfox Installer I found in Applications will ask me if I want to install when I click it but when I try to install, it goes back to the desktop.

[lovinglinux]

Kubuntu is not on par atm. It has some nice features but not quite there.

Perhaps not for you, but IMO is better than Gnome. I have used Gnome for more than a year and switched to KDE since Karmic Beta, because of the upcoming Gnome-Shell. I couldn't be happier with my DE.


Having more options and since KDE 4 was done alot from the ground up, it's gonna have more bugs then the default gnome you are used to. The new Kubuntu has come along what from previous versions, but is you want kde, you should probably think about another distro that specializes in it, at least until the next release if good progress is made.

I'm not actually using Kubuntu, but kde-minimal installed over a command-line only Ubuntu. It works great and is beautiful. I don't see any reason not use the Ubuntu implementation of KDE. There are some bugs indeed, but most of them are not exclusive to KDE. The ones that are KDE related are not deal brakers IMO.


I download Kubuntu 9.10, I like what I see so far, but I have a couple questions: I can't seem to get VirtualBox Guest Additions installed, in Ubuntu 9.04 this was easy. Also the Firfox Installer I found in Applications will ask me if I want to install when I click it but when I try to install, it goes back to the desktop.

Install Firefox from command-line.


sudo apt-get install firefox

[..::| Dave89 |::..]

Tried that, got this: http://yfrog.com/3ukubuntu910terminalp

[MelDJ]

there are broken packages. to repair in terminal type sudo apt-get -f

[..::| Dave89 |::..]

I got something about no such command. I ended up downloading firefox from the mozilla website.

I've been playing around with Kubuntu a bit more, While I like it, it seems somewhat more complicated to use than the regular Ubuntu version. I like the simplicity of GNOME, and thus will probably stick to that instead.