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Jan 13, 2009 02:05

Hey dudes! I'm posting this from Kubuntu Linux! I don't know why I've always wanted to try Linux, but now my itch is somewhat satisfied. It took way too many tries to install Firefox. Downloading it directly from Mozilla's website was Epic Fail, and trying to use Kubuntu's installer (Adept installer) was also Epic Fail. I tried to search for " ( Read more... )

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katskeep January 13 2009, 15:27:53 UTC

I was trying to figure out why I'd never had a problem with Firefox, when Chris pointed out that Kubuntu (being KDE) uses Konqueror by default, while Ubuntu (Gnome) comes with it pre-installed. Also, clearly Gnome is vastly superior ;)

I really like Ubuntu though. The only times I've had problems with it were when I was putting it on a really old laptop it didn't have drivers for (had to manually edit the X options) and when I dualbooted my Mac (wireless was a disaster, but I think they've fixed that in the latest version).

revenante January 13 2009, 17:33:04 UTC

I'd tried Ubuntu three times in the past, and I couldn't get it to work properly each time. The first time, I was using a Live CD on my PowerPC Mac, and at that point they'd stopped updating PowerPC versions of Ubuntu, so that didn't work so well. Couldn't make the Internet work no matter what I did. The second two times, I tried running it through a virtual machine (VMWare Fusion), and again, the Wireless internet didn't work at all. I honestly spent hours trying to configure it, though I'm not sure why. :P And that's with the latest release of Ubuntu, or whatever the latest release was a few weeks ago. However, Kubuntu seemed to work right away (except for the whole installing programs easily thing) so I obviously prefer the working one. :P

What exactly is the difference between Gnome and KDE? I tried asking Google-fu but I couldn't understand what I was reading.

katskeep January 14 2009, 01:41:19 UTC

That's frustrating. Not surprising, though - wireless always seems to be the one thing that never really works under Linux, probably because laptop drivers are such a disaster. I remember two of my super-nerdy friends spent 3 weeks in 2005 trying to get wireless running using SUSE and it never actually worked ( ... )