On Thursday, March 31, 2011 07:03 AM, Ken Gunderson wrote:
On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 13:17 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
Yes, Kubuntu is a complete disaster. Not the KDE team's fault though I
don't think. The Kubuntu devs botched it real bad. On another note, I
have heard that users of KDE on OpenSolaris are happy with it?
Who ever said anything about K/Ubuntu, mon? Imho, Ubuntu is for lamers
who're not quite bright enough to use a real operating system....
Or those who would rather not have to recompile kernel modules for their
Nvidia card. I'd be using Centos if I did not have to mess about every
time the kernel gets an update/security fix.
I stopped using OpenSolaris as a desktop after I have had enough of GNOME...
My experience is opposite - the more I use Gnome, the greater my
appreciation. Every once in a while I go retro and take Xfce or LXDE
for a spin, or even more retro and roll by own on top of OpenBOX. While
each has it's pros and cons, I keep coming back to Gnome because it just
works and I've better things to do with my time than tweak my
workstation desktop ad nauseum.
Just works? Good for you. Broken NetworkManager on Ubuntu, crashing
Thunderbird, uber memory hog. I wonder if XFCE would have been better
off not using GTK but ah well.
Well, there you go again. Mayhaps your problems are more Ubuntu than
Gnome related? In my experience Ubuntu has more glitches than Inspector
Gadget. In fact, just today migrated a coworker from Ubuntu to Debian.
That which would not work in Ubuntu worked as advertised on Debian -
same hardware.
The crashing thunderbird was on OpenSolaris - that was what made me move
back to a Linux distro (Kubuntu - did not want to bother with Nvidia
driver recompiles on Centos). Did not have it on Ubuntu 8.04 -> 9.04. I
have it now on 10.04 but I first had it on OpenSolaris (not counting
when thunderbird was pre 1.0 on whatever). Issues with GTK linked
software has a long history. I guess that is where my bias comes from.
GNOME is usable - I don't really care about how it looks - but never
quite stable for me. I was a Redhat/Centos guy. I had to learn the
differences of both Ubuntu and OpenSolaris. When I get a consistent
problem on two different operating systems, I start pointing fingers.
The Desktop on UNIX/Linux is just a mess. Period. I hope OSS4 gives
something better than the sun audio interface it is replacing (or did I
read that wrong?) and some strides are made elsewhere for the desktop.
Audio interface needs help. Just after a big revamp, still does not
support many common sound cards. Oh well, drivers anyone?
Audio interface revamp meaning sun audio or oss4?
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