Comments on: Ubuntu vs. Kubuntu

By: Ajmdc

Ajmdc — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:56:15 +0000

ALL windows is shipped with PAIN

By: bill

bill — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:52:15 +0000

Actually, dunkel had it right the first time–windows ALWAYS comes with “pain”

By: Billy

Billy — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 04:45:44 +0000

“but at least Canonical seems to understand ”
where do you think kubuntu came from???????

By: User

User — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:48:01 +0000

@ Chomp:
November 29th, 2007 at 10:16 pm

“I have never experienced any of the problems with Kubuntu you have described. When you were attempting to install java did you scroll to the bottom of the agreement and tick the little box for accepting the license before clicking next? I’ve never had a problem installing packages under Kubuntu so I am guessing that was your problem. Adept works perfectly as well in my experience. (…)”

And I’ve had problems with adept few times. It seems to be unstable. Sometimes it lefts deb database locked, so It’s just needed to delete .lock files. But currently, under Kubuntu 8.04 it failed once and I am not able to install any package through adept any more. And I am not a Linux newbie, I’ve been using Linux for 5 years…

Regards.

By: DunkelKid

DunkelKid — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:35:45 +0000

Update: ‘paint’, not ‘pain’ .

By: DunkelKid

DunkelKid — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:23:30 +0000

Err.. It IS the same linux. It’s just that it has different programs. Kde for example is a suite of programs. So.. same kernel, but .. well, Kubuntu with its suite of applications come with its share of bugs. Same goes to Ubuntu. Same linux.. hmm! It’s like saying ’same windows’, but one shipped with photoshop and the other with pain (ignore the fact that one is way better than the other, is just an example).

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:18:29 +0000

I find it very odd, then, that Ubuntu and Kubuntu would have such a distinctly different look and feel out of the box. Maybe it’s more an indication of the different directions GNOME and KDE are taking.

By: Chomp

Chomp — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:52:39 +0000

“Kubuntu and Ubuntu are not meant to be seen as distinct projects; Kubuntu is part of the Ubuntu project, and they are both part of one development team that contributes to the whole. Kubuntu is Ubuntu with a different default setup, the Ubuntu CD contains only GNOME as a desktop environment; the Kubuntu CD contains only KDE, this is the primary difference.”

- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kubuntu

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:26:20 +0000

Yep, I scrolled through the license agreements, but never saw an acceptance button. I suppose I could have missed it, but my patience for fiddling these days is very limited, which is why these are only cursory reviews and not in-depth studies.

I have no idea why it missed my Windows partition, either. If Kubuntu normally does that, it’s odd that it skipped mine. It was found in the partition portion of the setup, but never presented for importing or anything else, and again, missing from GRUB. Sure, I could easily have tweaked it, but it’s just odd that Ubuntu would find it and Kubuntu would not.

My understanding of Kubuntu (and Xubuntu for that matter) is while it’s distributed by Canonical, it’s more community-supported than Canonical-supported. I could be wrong, but I do find it odd that it would have such a different look and feel from the core Ubuntu version. Why would one have a solid, professional look and the other be chintzy? Also, I would think they would present it as a download on the core Ubuntu site and list it as supported if it were officially supported. Compete may not be the proper term, but it seems to me it’s not an official Canonical product.

By: Chomp

Chomp — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:16:01 +0000

I have never experienced any of the problems with Kubuntu you have described. When you were attempting to install java did you scroll to the bottom of the agreement and tick the little box for accepting the license before clicking next? I’ve never had a problem installing packages under Kubuntu so I am guessing that was your problem. Adept works perfectly as well in my experience. Additionally my grub menu has Kubuntu, safe mode, and Windows with no additional configuration on my part, so I am not sure what happened with you. Anyways, it is a trivial matter to add those to the grub menu. And lastly, Kubuntu does not compete with Canonical as Kubuntu is Canonical the same as Ubuntu is Canonical.