kubuntu vs ubuntu

[Simon Rönnqvist]

  Hi!

Yes some things in Kubuntu don't seem to be working properly, yet.
Since I too like the KDE application suite more I also thought I'd use those 
applications through Kubuntu (even though it'd be possible through Ubuntu 
too). When it comes to the default looks I think both Ubuntu and Kubuntu 
could look better, but that's easily changed for both of them.

The worst showstopper for Kubuntu right now seems to be the poorly working 
settings (in Breezy). (And maybe the fact that CD:s don't open in Konqueror.) 
As a temporary solution I just downloaded gnome-system-tools to get properly 
working configuration tools that way. But you'll have to edit the menu a 
little bit to get them working properly. (Just remove the gksudo before each 
command and enable run as different user, and maybe remove duplicates.)

I think Kubuntu has potential, but it needs to get a bunch of bugs fixed. 
Fortunately Hoary has much less bugs than Breezy for now, and not much less 
functionality... so for somebody unpatient about having the bugs in Breezy 
fixed it could be a good choice.

But there are two bugs which I've found both in Hoary and in Breezy on the 
PowerPC version. One is that image smoothing screws up the thumbnail and 
smaller than normal size views of images. In Gwenview one can set the image 
smoothing to Normal, Best or None instad of the default Fast to make it 
alright. But I haven't figured out how to do that change in Konqueror. 
Another problem which I'm not sure wether it's PowerPC specific or not is 
that one seems to be unable of saving changes to the default gateway through 
the network settings. The fact that these bugs are found in both versions 
make me a bit worried about wether they're ever going to be fixed.

  cheers, Simon


On Saturday 05 November 2005 13:49, Xurxo Fernandez wrote:
> Hi,
> I´ve been using kubuntu for a couple of months. It was the 1st time i had
> tried a linux os. After a failed upgrade to breezy i decided to give ubuntu
> a try. I´ve been using it for a few days and my impresion is that so far it
> works better than kubuntu. Wifi worked almost out of the box. I copied the
> firmware in the hotplug directories and configured it. Next time i rebooted
> wifi was working. In kubuntu i have to sudo iwconfig wlan0 and add the
> channel, wep key and then sudo route add default gw (there is a script to
> solve that issue though). I could also configured anything i wanted through
> the GUI while in kubuntu the administrator button doesnt work most of the
> times so i had to sudo kcontrol. But sincerely, after a few days i have
> come back to kubuntu because i do like better kde programs. I like kopete
> and kmail and i love the fact that konqueror could do almost anything, from
> surfing the web to check out samba shared folders, open pdf, etc. And then
> there is the eye-candy factor, gnome is plain ugly, almost like going back
> to win95 (i now you can change themes and stuff, but i´m talking about
> fresh instalations). So i´m back with kubuntu, trying to solve my sound
> problem that would make konqueror crash in websites with sounds and setting
> up superkaramba last version.