On 7/31/09, Joshua Zeidner wrote: > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Ryan Rix wrote: >> And the developer zeal of KDE and the future sustainability of its >> tech is much higher. KDE is a desktop designed with the future in >> mind, whereas GNOME is designed to introduce new users to GNU/Linux >> and provide a simple, deathly easy to use desktop. > > my trusted sources tend to corroborate those claims, so Im not going > to argue. Fact is though, Ubuntu chose Gnome. Perhaps the next major > distro to supercede Ubuntu will do so by adopting KDE. > > -jmz > >> >> KDE has akonadi, nepomuk, strigi, plasma.... GNOME has a largely >> Python based interface that has, in my experience seemed dull and >> introductory at best, nothing like KDE. Ever since the first time I >> used KDE (Knoppix livecd running 3.5.4(?) >> >> On 7/31/09, Joshua Zeidner wrote: >>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Ryan Rix wrote: >>>> On 7/31/09, Joshua Zeidner wrote: >>>>> I switched from Kubuntu to Ubuntu... Ubuntu is more solid. >>>>> >>>>> -jmz >>>> >>>> I don't get that at all, from the >>>> internal-x-won't-start-kernel-problem-ohnoes standpoint this thread is >>>> about, given that kubuntu == ubuntu + apt-get install kubuntu-desktop. >>>> >>>> And for that matter, since the last time you probably tried was when >>>> KDE4 was still in its use and thus NATURALLY less stable than GNOME. >>> >>> I would think that Ubuntu will continue to be more stable than >>> Kubuntu as the difference is user base is quite drastic. >>> >>> -jmz >>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Thanks and best regards, >>>> Ryan Rix >>>> OnBoard-NG >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> -- >> Thanks and best regards, >> Ryan Rix >> OnBoard-NG >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > sorry for the doublemail, kmail is giving me trouble, so I'm using gmail's web interface, which is giving me more trouble. :( -- Thanks and best regards, Ryan Rix OnBoard-NG --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss