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Author: Ryan Rix
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Subject: Re: BAD kubuntu
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
>>>
>>>>
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>>>> Thanks and best regards,
>>>> Ryan Rix
>>>> OnBoard-NG
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>> Ryan Rix
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