Opinions learning Ubuntu/Kubuntu

[Chris]

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 18:37 -0700, Roger Neth Jr wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 20:32 -0400, Chris wrote:
> > Roger...really, a production PC?! I like the sound of that. How do you
> > use it....professionally?  I set one of the computers up as a dual
> > boot
> > systems with the primary OS to be Suse Linux....well I scratched that
> > idea after the problems I mentioned earlier...I would like to install
> > Kubuntu or Ubuntu as the primary OS...but feel that I need to learn a
> > bit more.  The things that I thought be so simple to do, I actually
> > have
> > to learn!  I am determined to get there through! 
> 
> Hello Chris, thanks for joining the Ubuntu Community and hope you feel
> welcomed.
> 
> Basically I started out with Dapper Drake to test (multiple PC's at the
> office running Windows and OpenBSD).
> 
> Ubuntu was surprisingly easy to use and just started playing with it,
> installing peripherals and different packages from Synaptic.
> 
> Day by day, month by month, just started using Ubuntu desktop more and
> more and hardly use Windows except for Proprietary programs.
> 
> It was even easy to use terminal services and smb to connect to Windows
> 2k3 server.
> 
> Take the plunge and enjoy learning!
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Roger
> 
> 1 John 5:7
> 
> 

Thanks Roger,
That sound close to what I'm doing here.  You know it's not so much as
the learning curve that bothers me...it the weird things that happen
that aren't normal. (I should mention that I always running the Compiz
3d cube/desktop effects on all my Linux systems.)  Like when I load my
favorite KDE packages, like K3B ,Kaffeine and DigiKam.  K3B and DigiKam
will crash on running the application...they shouldn't...I don't
remembering having that problem in SUSE when running KDE apps in Gnome.
OR I'll double click to open a program or a link in the browser
(Firefox) the window opens but nothing loads...not even the
toolbars...or I compared two exact computers...same hardware
exactly...one with Ubuntu and the other with Kubuntu...I downloaded the
Compiz package and the Gnome Compiz controls for it in both
machines...without a doubt the Kubuntu is much slower graphical than the
PC with Ubuntu.  The most obvious is on a browser screen that you can
scroll on...you can move the the scroll bar with the mouse and it's
sluggish as hell...but on Ubuntu it's lighting fast...why?  It drives me
nuts.  It's weird stuff like this that really test my enthusiasm. I'm
going to post a seperate thread for this stuff.  Hey thanks Roger for
your opinion and experience.

Chris