Which do you prefer Ubuntu or Kubuntu and why?

Question

Which do you prefer Ubuntu or Kubuntu and why?

Answer 1

I'm another *buntu-hater right now. I've always had issues with it (it's never been a primary desktop for me) but right now when I use it at all I only use peoples' respins (like one done by a guy in a Linux User Group I belong to who certainly couldn't afford the bandwidth to make it widely available -- and it's specifically for ham radio anyhow). I've played with Wayland on Slackware I have a sense of where it is going. Up till now, the primary difference between Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Fubuntu and whatever has been the desktop. This is called marketing: the desktop doesn't play the same role in GNU/Linux it does in Windows because Linux is a modular operating system. Ubuntu is the only distro which differentiates between desktops (though Slackware, which is my default again doesn't offer GNOME -- there are respins or you can compile and install it yourself like I did with Wayland). Generally for Debian or Fedora or whatever the equivalent of ANY of those flavors is Debian or Fedora or whatever. Programmers, depending who they are, tend to prefer KDE, XFCE4 Fluxbox or lately LXDE desktops because they have a smaller memory footprint and give you more room to play with your processes. I liked KDE until 4.0 and even though they've fixed a lot of what went wrong with it I still prefer XFCE4 or Fluxbox. Except on Xubuntu.



Not only have they changed Xubuntu to make it more like GNOME, which makes sense from a marketing standpoint more than a programming one, but Unity is a step away from GNOME, and frankly looks like another case of marketing (as opposed to market-)driven innovation rather than technically driven innovation.



*buntus used to be about taking what is a developer's environment and making it usable by anyone. Whatever my issues with them, that was a great accomplishment and I still respect it. The two issues I have are first, Shuttleworth, the man behind *buntus, is talking about competing with Apple on the Graphics end, and Apple makes hardware so has a level of control you NEED in graphics and *buntu is supposed to run on commodity computers so won't have, while second, it's moving away from the standard developer's environment.



I guess I would say Kubuntu but I'm a hater in the worst sense right now -- being only willing to be proved wrong but unsure I shall be.

Answer 2

I thoroughly recommend Linux Mint 9 LTS and Linux Mint 10 Main Edition which are built upon Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long Term Support) and Ubuntu 10.10



Linux Mint 9 LTS Download

http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=52



Linux Mint 10 Download

http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=67



Linux Mint 9 LTS Release Notes/User Guide

http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_isadora.php



Linux Mint 10 Release Notes/User Guide

http://linuxmint.com/rel_julia.php



Also worth considering is Fusion Linux 14 which is a Fedora based distro.

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=fusion



Moving on to KDE I thoroughly recommend Linux Mint 10 KDE Edition



Linux Mint 10 KDE Download

http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=76



Linux Mint 10 KDE ReleaseNotes/User Guide

http://linuxmint.com/rel_julia_kde.php



Another KDE based distro. worth considering is Pardus Linux

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=pardus







LUg.

Answer 3

i don't like kde, so ubuntu

kde is far superior to win7 though, so they have that, it's just a different feel, and not for me.

Answer 4

Ubuntu, i like it..

Answer 5

`Neither. They are both dysfunctional