Ubuntu vs Kubuntu


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What are the differences between ubuntu and kubunt? apart from the fact ubuntu is GNOME and kubuntu is KDE that is..

is software compatibility and driver support in kubuntu the same as in ubuntu?

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You can download the KDE packages through apt-get for Ubuntu and have the option to use each at the login. Driver support is transparent to the windowing environment, and the only software compatibilities is usage of an applications bundled with GNOME(GTK)/KDE(QT) with the other, outside of it's intended GUI. KDE 4.1.x is ugly as sin, IMO... just use GNOME until they get KDE sorted out again.

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out of curiosity.. what didn't you like in KDE 4.1.x?

Pretty much everything. Widgets are a good concept but poorly executed. Desktop view of the home folder exposes files and folder contents to over the shoulder lurkers that I may not want eying my desktop in public. While the taskbar and desktop have a clean theme, applications running within KDE have an ugly "Applish" default appearance to them, which cannot be adjusted in the current builds. I'd prefer to use the stable KDE 3.5.x builds or wait for a progression and maturity of KDE 4.x.x down the road.

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Without discussing the merits and drawbacks of KDE vs GNOME, let me just say that they each are based on their own libraries for visual UI types of things. So they come with their own sofware sets that are also based on those libraries: for example, KDE has KOffice.

That said, I can be running Gnome, and install KOffice and run it just fine. It will have to install the KDE libraries needed to support it. But apps will run on any other "foundation", so to speak.

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