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I don't know about ubuntu, but Kubuntu sucks(at least the RC did).

by pavelludiq 18y ago

Tichy 18y ago
I don't know about Kubuntu, but Ubuntu doesn't suck (at least the 8.04 version didn't).
- pavelludiq 18y ago
  Kubuntu 8.04 kicks ass, but 8.10 sucks. Maybe its because of KDE 4, but i had a hard time setting up my keymaps,the new adept had random bugs in it, and i found it almost impossible to eject a CD!(i click eject and the cd ejects and GOES BACK IN!?!?!). On the other hand, since i switched back to 8.04 this morning, I've been missing folderview all day. KDE 4 has some good ideas in it, but needs more time to mature. ps. I love kubuntu, but this time they screwed up seriously!
  - Tichy 18y ago
    I am so far very happy with 8.10, too. Finally dual screen works out of the box, yay! Even flashplayer continued to work after the update, what more can one wish for?
  - nuclear_eclipse 18y ago
    The CD issue is a known bug (read the release notes). The temporary fix (until an SRU can make it to the repos) is to press eject again before the CD is remounted, and then it won't pull itself back in again.
- jodrellblank 18y ago
  I don't know about Kubuntu but I wish linux had something like Microsoft Update. apt-get and yum are a bit too "no, it's your decision, do you want to update libobscure-2.4.6.so and risk breaking everything?"
  - etal 18y ago
    Linux Mint (based on Ubuntu) has MintUpdate: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=71 http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=71 It rates packages by criticality during updates and hides the riskier ones by default. This is more important for Mint than Ubuntu proper, though, since Mint is a remix on top of the original packages and is more likely to break during a regular package update.
  - dimitar 18y ago
    You can set your update manager to only fetch security updates and install them in the background (and via a GUI, too!). They don't break anything and you won't get bugged. Plus, many people have huge hard drives and making backups of the OS isn't hard. You can fix it of course, but why bother when can you do it faster restoring from a backup..
  - jodrellblank 18y ago
    Having said this, Windows Update does find a new bloody error code every single time I run it and it never has a clue what the error code means. So, perhaps, something better than that. On the plus side, XP SP3 removes the option to have the IE address bar in the taskbar "for legal reasons" and the whole point of free software is to get away from that kind of junk. So maybe it's not all bad the apt-get your-hands-off-my-config-files way.

I don't know about ubuntu, but Kubuntu sucks(at least the RC did).

Tichy 18y ago

I don't know about Kubuntu, but Ubuntu doesn't suck (at least the 8.04 version didn't).

pavelludiq 18y ago
Kubuntu 8.04 kicks ass, but 8.10 sucks. Maybe its because of KDE 4, but i had a hard time setting up my keymaps,the new adept had random bugs in it, and i found it almost impossible to eject a CD!(i click eject and the cd ejects and GOES BACK IN!?!?!). On the other hand, since i switched back to 8.04 this morning, I've been missing folderview all day. KDE 4 has some good ideas in it, but needs more time to mature. ps. I love kubuntu, but this time they screwed up seriously!
- Tichy 18y ago
  I am so far very happy with 8.10, too. Finally dual screen works out of the box, yay! Even flashplayer continued to work after the update, what more can one wish for?
- nuclear_eclipse 18y ago
  The CD issue is a known bug (read the release notes). The temporary fix (until an SRU can make it to the repos) is to press eject again before the CD is remounted, and then it won't pull itself back in again.
jodrellblank 18y ago
I don't know about Kubuntu but I wish linux had something like Microsoft Update. apt-get and yum are a bit too "no, it's your decision, do you want to update libobscure-2.4.6.so and risk breaking everything?"
- etal 18y ago
  Linux Mint (based on Ubuntu) has MintUpdate: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=71 http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=71 It rates packages by criticality during updates and hides the riskier ones by default. This is more important for Mint than Ubuntu proper, though, since Mint is a remix on top of the original packages and is more likely to break during a regular package update.
- dimitar 18y ago
  You can set your update manager to only fetch security updates and install them in the background (and via a GUI, too!). They don't break anything and you won't get bugged. Plus, many people have huge hard drives and making backups of the OS isn't hard. You can fix it of course, but why bother when can you do it faster restoring from a backup..
- jodrellblank 18y ago
  Having said this, Windows Update does find a new bloody error code every single time I run it and it never has a clue what the error code means. So, perhaps, something better than that. On the plus side, XP SP3 removes the option to have the IE address bar in the taskbar "for legal reasons" and the whole point of free software is to get away from that kind of junk. So maybe it's not all bad the apt-get your-hands-off-my-config-files way.