On Sat, 2 May 2009, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > Dear all, > > This summer I plan on building a new workstation and I think I'm going to > install Kubuntu instead of Debian. > > Has anyone here made this switch? Any thoughts or comments about whether > Kubuntu met/didn't meet your expectations? > > Thanks, > Pete
Several years ago I started switching my workstations from debian to ubuntu and have been happy. The only comments I would add to everything already said is that I recommend going with the more stable Intrepid version (8.10) rather than the version released last week (Jaunty, 9.04). Two of my four worstations had serious issues with the new release. A month from now 9.04 should be pretty stable. Regular (Gnome desktop) ubuntu comes with an alternate install CD which uses debian's ancient, robust text-based installer. If kubuntu has this too I think you will be much happier with this than with the graphical installer, which is much slower and less flexible. However, if you just want to see what the kubuntu will look like and that it will work, the graphical install CD will also produce a working KDE desktop environment run from the CD itself. Chris _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
