"SINNER"posted the following on 2006-03-07:

> * Richard G. Riley wrote in alt.os.linux.debian:
>
>> "Johannes"posted the following on 2006-03-06:
>>
>>> Am 06.03.2006 22:03 schrieb AnonymousFC4:
>>>> Hello:
>>>> I am using Fedora 4 and SUSE 10... and more and more SUSE.
>>>>
>>>> I have tried the latest (beta) of FC5, and am moderately impressed:
>>>> I am not talking about the bugs, I am talking about ease of use!
>>>>
>>>> I am considering installing UBUNTU but hesitate between UBUNTU and
>>>> KUBUNTU. I like KDE, which I find usually a better GUI than GNOME,
>>>> also KDE platform progress faster than GNOME.
>>>> Would appreciate comments and advises.
>>>> Also is the XFS file system properly supported under (k)UBUNTU?
>>>> And last but not least can you have UBUNTU and KUBUNTU with a login
>>>> option? Thanks.
>>>
>>> Kubuntu and ubuntu are equal. The only difference is the installed
>>> desktop. You can get kubuntu from ubuntun, if you install the
>>> kubuntu-desktop.
>>>
>>> XFS should be no problem.
>>>
>>> What do you mean with login option?
>>
>> KDE and Gnome are far from equal IMO.
>
> Not at all what was said. The comparison was against the [K]Ubuntu
> distros.

Was it? I thought he was talking about KDE and Gnome. Apologies if
there was a misunderstanding. But having said
that, I had real trouble with the kubuntu distro install because of
issues with the wireless lan GUI interface : had no such issues with
the Gnome utility to set up WEP extra which the Ubuntu install
defaulted to.

>
>> One is not necessarily better
>> though : depends what you want. Since the "desktop" is the GUI to the
>> tools you will use to do a productive job then then things are very
>> different as are the installed applications.
>>
>> On my machine KDE was unstable unfortunately which is unfortunate
>> because I prefer KDE over Gnome from what Ive seen as a general
>> rule.
>
> So run your KDE apps under Gnome and see if your stability issues are
> still there.
>

I do : no problems. Having said that I havent been switching between
sessions as much as I was and have regressed to default video drivers
with no HW 3d.

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