On Tue 05 May 09, 8:17 AM, Chris Jenks <[email protected]> said: > > 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
Thank you for such great responses, everyone. I definitely plan on installing K/Ubuntu as soon as classes are over (and I think I'll take Chris's advice on the installer because I'm pretty sure he's spot on with that). Truth be told, I'm desktop agnostic. I currently still use Enlightenment, but am going to force myself to switch to a desktop manager. Gnome looks prettier IMO, but I'm more familiar with KDE (and have heard it's more configurable, but that's not always a good thing). I guess I'll base my decision on the installer. :) Pete -- GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D Last night I dreamt of 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0 "The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today [email protected] is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent http://www.dirac.org are full of doubt" --- Bertrand Russell _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
