[Leaplist] quick opinions - ubuntu vs. mint

[Dan Cherry]

Mark W. Alexander wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 10:28:36AM -0500, Dan Cherry wrote:
>> I've been breaking my Kubuntu installations more often than I care to 
>> work on (mostly my own fault).  And I'm going to give gnome a try for a 
>> while - I'll go back to KDE4 when it stabilizes a little more, or when I 
>> stabilize a little more;)
> 
> Just out of curiosity, are you using the 4.3.3 ppa?
> (http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-4.3.3). It's been solid for me.
> 
> mwa
I had been using the ppa (I think it was 4.3.1) while karmic was in 
development (beta thru the last rc).  When karmic went live, I disabled 
the ppa repository, and let KDE catch up with the "official" release. 
I've got two boxes on 4.3.2 and two boxes on 4.3.3.  Both are very 
stable if you just use them as delivered.  My problems stem from caveats 
and tweaks - such as avidemux not liking my intel sound card, and google 
advice suggesting I remove pulse audio.  It not only didn't fix the 
problem, I could never get audio back to right after that, with or 
without pulseaudio - asound was gone, and I couldn't find it to 
reinstall - frustrating.  Just an example.  I had caldav working 
perfectly from kontact, then after an update, kontact could no longer 
attach to caldav, and I was having to put in a kwallet password to 
shutdown!  I also had grub2 lose the uuid for my swap partition, and 
couldn't boot until I reformatted it and fixed fstab with a repair disk 
- wasn't trivial to troubleshoot.  I know that's not KDE, but it was a 
result of one of the karmic repository updates.  The system tools in KDE 
are coming along nicely, but aren't ready for primetime IMHO.  It's not 
that KDE hasn't been solid, it's more like pushing the envelope takes 
KDE past what it can handle, and instead of simply not working, it 
breaks.  So I'm going to chill for a couple months on Gnome, and wait 
for KDE 4.4, then give it another try.

Dan

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