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Re: Canonical will no longer fund Kubuntu

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Post by alinajaf » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 1:17 PM UTC

puzzler314 wrote: post #10

I've recently switched Linux Mint as a result of Canonical's new focus on eye candy rather than functionality (I couldn't take the new interface in Ubuntu). Have others gone the same way or is there another distribution I should look at?

I stuck with Ubuntu but switch to gnome + xmonad on fresh installs. If this ceases to be possible in future releases I may take a few days and get set up with arch linux, and then automate that with chef or something similar.

Re: Canonical will no longer fund Kubuntu

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Post by nailer » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 1:26 PM UTC

tzury wrote: post #3

Following the Unix philosophy Write programs that do one thing and do it well -- perhaps we can assume that Canonical is willing to maintain one OS, and do it well.

I've been wanting to hear this for a long time. Not that I like one more than the other, I just think that Canonicals effort should be towards developing, fixing and improving one UI, not four.

Re: Canonical will no longer fund Kubuntu

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Post by zerathul » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 1:30 PM UTC

really, what's the problem with installing kde on ubuntu/ubuntu server?

Re: Canonical will no longer fund Kubuntu

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Post by davidw » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 1:31 PM UTC

puzzler314 wrote: post #10

I've recently switched Linux Mint as a result of Canonical's new focus on eye candy rather than functionality (I couldn't take the new interface in Ubuntu). Have others gone the same way or is there another distribution I should look at?

The idea that you should reinstall every time, with Mint, makes it sound like a bit of a toy, in my eyes.

Re: Canonical will no longer fund Kubuntu

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Post by nickolai » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 1:32 PM UTC

puzzler314 wrote: post #10

I've recently switched Linux Mint as a result of Canonical's new focus on eye candy rather than functionality (I couldn't take the new interface in Ubuntu). Have others gone the same way or is there another distribution I should look at?

I've done so too. It seems that they will not be able to get around the Gnome3 crap in their ubuntu-based edition. They're trying to get out of the mess with their Cinnamon project. I'll see how it goes, but i'm afraid I'll have to ditch gnome altogether and go for XFCE (in Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) for example, they say its a rolling distro too, so it looks even more like a good idea).

Re: Canonical will no longer fund Kubuntu

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Post by andrewcooke » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 1:37 PM UTC

"[...] a regularly released community-friendly distro with a strong KDE focus. There is no other major distro out there that matches that description [...]"

Then WTF is OpenSuse? http://www.opensuse.org/en/

This makes me really mad. OpenSuse is a major distro and has supported KDE for years. It's not so popular in the USA, but is pretty big in Europe (I have used it for years and it rocks; so does KDE). I don't see how the quote above is excusable. Before reading that you had my sympathy, but if you're going to trash-talk the rest of the community then good riddance.

[I just noticed some people are actively downvoting this comment. Just how far does mindless Ubuntu fanboyism and intolerance of alternatives go?]

Re: Canonical will no longer fund Kubuntu

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Post by jhdevos » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 1:37 PM UTC

puzzler314 wrote: post #10

I've recently switched Linux Mint as a result of Canonical's new focus on eye candy rather than functionality (I couldn't take the new interface in Ubuntu). Have others gone the same way or is there another distribution I should look at?

I've installed the xubuntu-desktop packages on Ubuntu 11.10, and am pretty happy with it, at home; at work I'm using Ubuntu with the awesome window manager -- but running a gnome-session within that to make some things a bit easier.

Ubuntu is not limited to the default interface if you spend a little bit of time; probably that is far less time than getting to know a new distribution.

Re: Canonical will no longer fund Kubuntu

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Post by dhimes » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 1:43 PM UTC

davidw wrote: post #14

puzzler314 wrote: post #10

I've recently switched Linux Mint as a result of Canonical's new focus on eye candy rather than functionality (I couldn't take the new interface in Ubuntu). Have others gone the same way or is there another distribution I should look at?

The idea that you should reinstall every time, with Mint, makes it sound like a bit of a toy, in my eyes.

It's a philosophy, not a requirement. Mint thinks you should upgrade Ubuntu that way as well.

I just keep separate partitions and do a full install on the ones I need. No sweat.

On the other hand, I did a "ubuntu" style upgrade to 10.04 LTS, and that worked fine, too (I run that on a netbook for their netbook interface). It took longer than a full install on Mint (perhaps being a slower machine had something to do with it), but it worked out ok.

Re: Canonical will no longer fund Kubuntu

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Post by oinksoft » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 1:45 PM UTC

andrewcooke wrote: post #16

"[...] a regularly released community-friendly distro with a strong KDE focus. There is no other major distro out there that matches that description [...]" Then WTF is OpenSuse? http://www.opensuse.org/en/ This makes me really mad. OpenSuse is a major distro and has supported KDE for years. It's not so popular in the USA, but is pretty big in Europe (I have used it for years and it rocks; so does KDE). I don't see h…

Mandriva and its descendant PCLinuxOS also fall into this category. I believe Mandriva is relatively popular in Europe also, being used in government and such.

Re: Canonical will no longer fund Kubuntu

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Post by dhimes » Tue, Feb 07, 2012, 1:48 PM UTC

puzzler314 wrote: post #10

I've recently switched Linux Mint as a result of Canonical's new focus on eye candy rather than functionality (I couldn't take the new interface in Ubuntu). Have others gone the same way or is there another distribution I should look at?

I switched to Mint a while back, not because of mad h4xx0r skilz (I don't have them), but because it "just works" (for linux). As a happy coincidence, they give me an acceptable desktop option in their custom desktop.

Unfortunately, in Mint 12 my lexmark printer no longer works. I think it's some issue between 3.0 kernel, cups, and Mint, but nobody has quite figured it out yet.

This happens with Windows upgrades too, so please no flame wars here.