On 07/17/2013 02:39 PM, John Andersen wrote:
With Kubuntu, 1) You can click one option at install time and it goes and finds everything you need for a complete and competent multimedia system. No scary language.
2) You can start with the latest LTE release and expect it to be maintained for at least 5 years.
I've found that new users to Linux are baffled by this need to essentially do a major upgrade every 18 months (or what ever it is these days). After 5 years my Wife's Kubuntu finally nagged her to click that single button to upgrade to the next Long Term Release, and it was painless.
3) Kubuntu configuration seems limited and locked down by comparison to Yast, but on the other hand new users don't need to do that much other than install packages of interest.
With Kubuntu there are a few things that you have to do right off as soon after install as you can. 1. Open a terminal and install Synaptic package handler. The KDE handler is almost worse than useless. 2. Install Firefox. Konqueror is pretty much trashed and Rekonq is in about the same state as the package handler. 3. Once Firefox is installed, and while the terminal is open, got Medibuntu and add the repository. While your there you can copy/paste the script to install all the basic multimedia stuff you'll need. I usually cruise over to WineHQ and add their repository also. [ I have a few old Windows programs that I use a lot and they work just fine under Wine. ] 4. Open Synaptic and add everything else you think you might want. Thunderbird, games, whatever. -- “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” -Albert Einstein "A great moral force is a bayonet on a gun and a web-belt full of cartridges." -Colonel John S. Poland, U. S. Army - 1894 "In all border lands a certain class of men have to be killed to insure the welfare and safety of the peaceably inclined." - Judge William L. Kuykendall - 1917 _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org