[vox-tech] Converting to Kubuntu

[Bob Scofield]

On Saturday 02 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?

I can only address things from a non-technical point of view.  I've used 
Debian testing for a long time as my main system.  But I've had Kubuntu 8.04 
on my laptop, and Kubuntu 8.10 on another partition of my desktop with KDE 
4.1.

I've been very happy with Kubuntu on my laptop.  Recently I had a bad 
experience with Debian.  Because I detest KDE 4.x, I decided to switch from 
Debian testing to Debian 5.0 in order to freeze KDE at 3.5.  For some reason 
my HPLIP toolbox doesn't work.  But the big surprise is that this Debian 
stable release hangs every 5 or 6 boots.  It hangs where the startup messages 
state that the kernel modules are being loaded.  So in mid-June I'm putting 
Kubuntu on both my wife's computer, and this one.  That is, I'm replacing 
Debian stable with Kubuntu; probably 8.04.

I realize that Kubuntu is a Debian offshoot, and I have a lot of respect for 
Debian.  If I ever become flush again I'll make another monetary contribution 
to the Debian project even if I'm not using Debian itself.

Bob