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Author: Joshua Zeidner
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Subject: Re: BAD kubuntu
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
>>
>>>
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>>> Thanks and best regards,
>>> Ryan Rix
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