Kubuntu 7-10 frustrations

Sridhar Dhanapalan sridhar at dhanapalan.com
Thu Feb 28 13:06:11 GMT 2008


On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Daniel Mons <daniel.mons at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> Jaydear wrote:
> > I'd really like to get K7-10 up and running, but IMO it's not
> > friendly. Maybe I've been spoiled by friendly OS-X and various Windows
> > iterations. The Samba thing is way too frustrating. Over the years
> > I've set up plenty of PCs (Win 3.11 through to XP) and more recently
> > Macs and got the networking fine tuned and on the www without dramas
> > or any tech support, so why is setting up the same thing on Kubuntu so
> > bleeding hard?
>
> My first suggestion to you is to use Ubuntu.  Kubuntu is a wonderful
> product, but like it or not it is not the official distribution.  All of
> the baseline documentation is written for Ubuntu.

As a Kubuntu user, I can attest that Ubuntu is better polished. I would 
suggest that you install that first. If you still desire KDE, you can install 
the kubuntu-desktop package, which will give you all the goodness of Kubuntu. 
The next time you log in, pick KDE and you'll get a Kubuntu environment.

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