Is Kubuntu a decent alternative to Ubuntu's Unity?

Question

I've been using Ubuntu for over 3 years and really like it. Just don't like Unity- so I'm still using 10.04.
Linux Mint 11 is good- but its not forever. Mint 12 is usable, but I would rather not.
Is Kubuntu and the KDE even worth trying?

Answer 1

Yup, stick with 10.04 or 10.10 for a while yet. 11 will have no long-term support and Unity is not to my liking, either.



But consider Xubuntu. The XFCE Desktop is just excellent.

Answer 2

KDE is great and I like it more than GNOME. I don't really like Ubuntu anything anyway, but Debian is the project that Ubuntu is derived from and it still runs on GNOME by default. I haven't liked Ubuntu or Kubuntu since 8.10.

Answer 3

Continue using Lucid Lynx - Ubuntu 10.04 is indeed better than the later versions, not only in the interface, but it's faster too.



But hold on, wait till April 26, when Ubuntu 12.04 will be released. Read its reviews and then make your decision.

Answer 4

certainly i'm stunned that surely everyone ignored a key element. Gnome and KDE are the two laptop laptop possibilities. you may installation the two or the two, to boot as any of a number of different computers. you elect a default to apply, yet you may easily swtich between Gnome and KDE - they are straightforward to place in from Synaptic kit supervisor. The classes do no longer fluctuate - you run a similar middle classes under the two laptop laptop - the middle "buntu" is a similar. you in addition to mght can run a similar important classes (OpenOffice, Audacity, XYZ) under the two laptop laptop. There are utilities that are unique to one or the different, yet you may load Gnome utilities under KDE and KDE utilities under Gnome. in case you have the hard disk drive area, you may load all of Gnome and KDE and Xfce (the Xubuntu laptop laptop) and use alternating computers reckoning on which day of ways, or the stages of the moon, or in spite of. Gnome is proposed with the help of a few considering that's extra durable for shoppers to debris issues up, KDE has many extra ideas, and is way less complicated to waste time with, decrease to rubble, or configure right down to a t as to what you elect. i began out utilising KDE - it delivers plenty extra configurability. And in a fashion that's extra like the windoze laptop laptop - I in all probability put in Kbuntu. I switched to Ubuntu for a sort of motives. I put in the KDE laptop laptop at one element, yet did no longer difficulty after doing an improve, in some unspecified time sooner or later. I run the Gnome laptop laptop purely approximately solely, as a results of fact i decide directly to appreciate Gnome. I certainly have in all probability been working it for 2 or possibly 3 years now. There are some issues I pass over in KDE, yet no longer something intense, and it forces me to income extra approximately Gnome and third occasion ideas.

Answer 5

You can install many desktop environments on your existing instal. You just chose one at log in (you can set a default) I had Gnome, KDE, and XFCE for a while till I decided which one I wanted.



sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/install-kde-kubuntu-on-ubuntu/



If you don't like it:

sudo aptitude remove kubuntu-desktop

http://ubuntumanual.org/posts/87/how-to-uninstall-kde-in-ubuntu



Don't forget LXDE - nice looking and lightweight

http://lxde.org/image_galleries/screenshots



sudo apt-get install lxde



Some of the popular desktop environments:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment#Gallery

Answer 6

try Tubuntu :D

it is Kubuntu but with Trinity Desktop Environment that picked up KDE 3 after KDE "upgraded" to 4 :@

http://www.trinitydesktop.org/

they have a live CD / DVD based on Kubuntu http://apt.pearsoncomputing.net/cdimages/



the ney sayer will shout about outdated libraries (Qt3) but that's only because they don't know what they are talking about; the developers of TDE have upgraded the framework to Qt4, the very same as the one used for KDE4;

thus, you get windoooooz 8 technology with the well known XP desktop.



if what you are looking for is a solid DE that works, TDE is your choice.

if you are looking for fancy graphics, bugs & crashes, you may as well go with Kubuntu, indeed...