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Canonical will no longer fund Kubuntu

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Re: Canonical will no longer fund Kubuntu

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Post by jcitme »

spwmoni wrote: post #75
cookiecaper wrote: post #70

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Of course they aren't. One of the coolest things about desktop Linux is that you can easily use whatever DE suits your fancy without having to do a bunch of footwork. Packaging these as different distributions sends your users red flags about compatibility and ease of use. It makes people think they have to change their computer completely if they want to try something new. It makes them think they can't have concurr…

Ubuntu's target market has a very different interpretation of "a bunch of footwork" than yours.

sudo aptitude install kde-full shouldn't be "a bunch of footwork" by any standard by someone who passed high school.

Re: Canonical will no longer fund Kubuntu

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Post by aroman »

malnourish wrote: post #80
mike-cardwell wrote: post #54

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I was unaware of Lubuntu. I will keep it in mind. Thanks.

I'm using Elementary OS, which is based off Ubuntu. It's simple, clean, and works very well for my purposes.

If you don't mind me asking, what might those purposes be?

Re: Canonical will no longer fund Kubuntu

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Post by redthrowaway »

jcitme wrote: post #81
spwmoni wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ubuntu's target market has a very different interpretation of "a bunch of footwork" than yours.

sudo aptitude install kde-full shouldn't be "a bunch of footwork" by any standard by someone who passed high school.

I'd hazard a guess that there's a not-insignificant number of Ubuntu users for whom opening the terminal is "a bunch of footwork".

I used to live with a 40-something woman who was fairly technologically impaired, the kind of person you would expect to get a MacBook Air and call it a day. She ran Mint. Now, granted, it was installed by our room mate who was (still is, I suppose) a CS grad student, but she got by just fine with Mint, LibreOffice, and Chrome. Never used anything else, and never had a need to go plunking around on the command line.

I suspect Susan is not alone among Linux users who just wanted a cheap computer that worked and had some nerd install a user-friendly distro for them.

Re: Canonical will no longer fund Kubuntu

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Post by malnourish »

aroman wrote: post #82
malnourish wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm using Elementary OS, which is based off Ubuntu. It's simple, clean, and works very well for my purposes.

If you don't mind me asking, what might those purposes be?

I use it as my daily driver, dual boot with Windows 7 only for Netflix and Steam.

I typically run Clementine, Thunderbird, Aurora channel Firefox, and gvim. It works splendidly on my Lenovo y560p.

Re: Canonical will no longer fund Kubuntu

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Post by drinian »

cookiecaper wrote: post #61
pgroves wrote: post #40

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Kubuntu is not Ubuntu. It is a complete distro with KDE as the default desktop. In the future, KDE support will still be in Ubuntu, as much as it is in Opensuse. Opensuse allows you to pick which desktop to use [1]. OpenSuse is not a "KDE distro." [1] http://en.opensuse.org/Product_highlights

Puh-leese. Kubuntu and Ubuntu are the same distribution. They just replace your boot screens when you install kubuntu-desktop instead of just installing another DE. I've always been annoyed at Canonical's packaging of different DEs as if they were entirely different distros.

I haven't tried this in a few years, but I recall that Kubuntu and Ubuntu desktops used to have serious issues co-existing on the same box for some reason.

Don't really care, now, as I'm on Lubuntu.

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