Bye Bye Kubuntu

web said:
It has been fun but I prefer Mandriva or Suse.
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Amen!

It may be the rubbish package management system, the text-based default bootloader or the awful brown/orange default color scheme, but I just couldn't stomach that flavour anymore either.

Switched over to OpenSUSE 10.3 and I've never looked back. It's just much more polished and it feels like somebody actually put some effort into it. :p
 
Just do, have used both for years maybe thats why know my way around them and how they do things. To me they just look better, I find kubuntu simple"and plain, but hey Pooks that just me nothing wrong with it
 
Is there any way to have ubuntu, and try the other distro's, without losing ubuntu?
 
Pooky said:
Is there any way to have ubuntu, and try the other distro's, without losing ubuntu?
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Just install the new distro on a seperate partition. It will overwrite the old bootloader and it should pick up Ubuntu and add it to the list of OS's that you can choose from.
 
??

KDE is KDE, Gnome is Gnome? Only real difference is the package management, and I can't stand anything that isn't based on repositories, thank you very much.

I'll stick with Gentoo :D
 
I'm also considering switching...

Which distro do you recommend for a Macbook? Hardy has been giving me far to many problems with wifi. (broadcom chipset)
 
Dobee said:
I'm also considering switching...

Which distro do you recommend for a Macbook? Hardy has been giving me far to many problems with wifi. (broadcom chipset)
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Try OpenSUSE 10.3. It's free! :p

SUSE is the "artsiest" flavour of Linux I've encountered, so it should fit in well with the MacBook.

Install Compiz Fusion to add some really nice visual effects! :eek:
 
TiredOfWaiting said:
Try OpenSUSE 10.3. It's free! :p

SUSE is the "artsiest" flavour of Linux I've encountered, so it should fit in well with the MacBook.

Install Compiz Fusion to add some really nice visual effects! :eek:
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I used suse a few years back and liked it... I'll research it first ;)
 
TiredOfWaiting said:
Amen!

It may be the rubbish package management system, the text-based default bootloader or the awful brown/orange default color scheme, but I just couldn't stomach that flavour anymore either.

Switched over to OpenSUSE 10.3 and I've never looked back. It's just much more polished and it feels like somebody actually put some effort into it. :p
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I did a "double install of Ubuntu and Kubuntu". I have Ubuntu with both kde and kde4 desktops also available. I generally don't use package managers (I stick to the console0, but if I do I use Synaptic when I am in Gnome(Ubuntu) or Adept in KDE, with which I am more than happy. But strangely enough, I find YAST similar to Synaptic......
 
Kasyx said:
Nope, I meant *good* repositories :D
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And oh, I, along with all the other faithful Ubuntu soldiers, find our repositories to be far more superior than any other army in the whole land east or west of here. :D

No, on the serious side, Ubuntu packages are the most widely supported. Especially when it comes to local. It also is a more than just decent repository.
 
froot said:
And oh, I, along with all the other faithful Ubuntu soldiers, find our repositories to be far more superior than any other army in the whole land east or west of here. :D

No, on the serious side, Ubuntu packages are the most widely supported. Especially when it comes to local. It also is a more than just decent repository.
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I tend to disagree with you there. In many cases the files in the repositories are broken, unavailable or just plain borked.

I tried installing WINE in Ubuntu and it just failed miserably more than once. It goes to about 80% of the download and then just gives me some nondescript error. :eek:

And the software in those repositories are always a few versions behind the rest of the distros. In my experience anyway... :rolleyes:
 
We have a couple of nice updated *buntu repo's on the jawug network... works extremely well!
 
TiredOfWaiting said:
I tend to disagree with you there. In many cases the files in the repositories are broken, unavailable or just plain borked.

I tried installing WINE in Ubuntu and it just failed miserably more than once. It goes to about 80% of the download and then just gives me some nondescript error. :eek:

And the software in those repositories are always a few versions behind the rest of the distros. In my experience anyway... :rolleyes:
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I still dont know how you can struggle with wine through the repos. I have never ever struggled, and I just use the default repos, nothing special. But the wine in the repos is not the latest one, best to download it from the website itself.
 
Gothan said:
I still dont know how you can struggle with wine through the repos. I have never ever struggled, and I just use the default repos, nothing special. But the wine in the repos is not the latest one, best to download it from the website itself.
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It's not just WINE. Apart from the vast amount of application that can't load from the repos (I've tried the local one, the main one, even some European ones), the system also can't update. :eek:

I just haven't been enjoying much luck with Ubuntu at all! :(

OpenSUSE works like a charm right out of the box, though. Not a single application install has failed yet and I'm just enjoying a much better overall experience with it. Your mileage on Ubuntu may vary, but my mind has been made up. :rolleyes:
 
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