[Wylug-discuss] Ubuntu loses the plot: looking elsewhere...

[Richard Ibbotson]

On Friday 14 Oct 2011 19:46:03 Simon Brown wrote:
> At Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:20:05 +0100,
> Can anyone comment on the relative merits of KDE based distros? I
> hadn't heard of Pardus. I'd always thought of SuSE as the leading
> KDE distro.

My own experience of the latest release of Sabayon KDE was that it was 
wobbly in places.  Kubuntu can be good but it can also go up and down 
a bit depending on what the latest release is doing.  Linux Mint was 
good for me until I messed up an upgrade of KDE.  Couldn't get at 
Kmail due to the fact that the Akonadi server blocked access.  My 
fault.  I'm running Debian Squeeze with - http://www.debian-
desktop.org/doku.php.  This gives a rock solid desktop that is up to 
date.  My Squeeze web server is also reliable.  PC-BSD 9 is also good.  
Others ?  I've tried them all at one time or another.  Something like 
Virtualbox can be good for having a look at them until you make up 
your mind to switch to something.

If I'm going to switch to another distro I will have two or three 
disks in front of me.  Such as Debian, openSuSE and Kubuntu.  I know 
that these work.  Then I'll have the other one that I'd like to use on 
the desk in front of me as well.  If it refuses to boot or install I 
can fall back on to one of the others.

-- 
Richard