Kubuntu 11.10. If your system is more than a year or two old, your video
card might not be up to snuff. That can be fixed in command line, but a
first time user (I hate the term newbie) might really freak out when he
gets a black screen.
Get the regular distro, The one that installs in text mode doesn't give you
the option of trying it first. If everything works, then install. If it
doesn't work, the LTS edition has at least some older software in it.
Xubuntu can be as demanding as 11.10. Lubuntu might work better, I don't
know not having tried it. It might give you Gnome, but then you can use the
Synaptic Package Manager to add KDE, it's a meta package called Kubuntu
My impression of Mint is that it's got a very small support network, which
forces them to market themselves as conservative. It's a Ubuntu derivative.
Apparently the big difference is that, once you install it, you don't put a
new edition every six months, it upgrades the existing edition based on
packages being around long enough to get the bugs out of them.
The impression that I get is that when something new comes out in Linux,
the package's committee are counting on the initial users to help them with
bug fixes. KDE 4.0 was a mess, so was Gnome 3, but after six months or a
year, the Angels who submit bug fixes bring it up to snuff.
The Ubuntu LTS editions look like they are really written for a company.
The company Geek doesn't have time to run all over the company upgrading
desktops , so with LTS he gets to go a couple of years, rather than six
months, without having to upgrade every desktop in the company.
On , Cranky Frankie <[email protected]> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Mark Wallace [email protected]>
wrote:
> It has incredible versatility, almost to a fault. A fault in the sense
that
> some one who has only had access to Windows 7 might need six months to
get
> it under control. It requires an infinite amount of configuring because
it
> has so many options.
Please let us know which distro you are using.
The last time I tried KDE with Kubuntu I played with it for 20 minutes
and just gave up. IMHO if you can't figure out a GUI in t20 minutes at
this point it's the GUI's fault, not the user. However, now that I
have Virtual Box running nicely on my laptop I'm looking for other
distros to try, so I'm willing to keep your email for the tips and
give KDE another try.
--
Frank L. "Cranky Frankie" Palmeri
Risible Riding Raconteur & Writer
“How you do anything is how you do everything.”
- from Alabama Crimson Tide training room
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