If you like KDE over Gnome, Mandriva 2010 One is an excellent choice. Try it out and see for yourself. Mandriva does a better job with KDE than Kubuntu. http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=05749
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Bruce <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > > I have been, with the help of this list, weaning myself and family from > the world of Micro$oft. I started out with SUSE somewhere around the > 6.* version. I followed a small crowd running the other direction when > Novell started contracting with the Redmond community. > > I landed in the Kubuntu environment. Kubuntu 9.10, in my experience, > fell flat on it's ISO. I assumed it was growing pains of the latest > KDE. I installed Ubuntu on my "it has to work" machine and then used > the other laptop to tinker with 10.04 (starting with Alpha 2) of both > Ubuntu and Kubuntu. Neither seems to be very spectacular in what it > does. I haven't had any major problems, though I am far from a power user. > > I ran across this article this morning and wondered what other folks > might think. I hope I am not inviting a flame war. I am still a > husband/father/truck driver and don't have time to research this myself. > > I would like some comment from your vast pool of experience as to what > this writer said. Most of my curiosity stems from the latter half of > this article. Pointers to articles, other distros, etc. are all > welcomed. If they come with your observations or opinions, so much the > better. > > http://www.ghabuntu.com/2010/04/where-is-ubuntu-going-to.html > > Thanks, > > Bruce > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
