the go-to distro

[richb]

MX-14 has a built in compositor as well for minimal functions.

[Gordon Cooper]

I must admit I am still drawn to KDE4 and Kubuntu 14.04 .

Rich, I looked at Kubuntu 14.04 and trialled one of the Beta versions, but am still running
12.04 alongside MX-14 - which does most of the day to day tasks. Does 14.04 show any
great advances over 12.04?

Gordon.

[richb]

I must admit I am still drawn to KDE4 and Kubuntu 14.04 .

Rich, I looked at Kubuntu 14.04 and trialled one of the Beta versions, but am still running
12.04 alongside MX-14 - which does most of the day to day tasks. Does 14.04 show any
great advances over 12.04?

Gordon.

I never used 12.04 so cannot say. I did use 13.04. then 13.10. I would characterize the changes from them as subtle, and as they say "under the hood", as well as bug fixes.

[malspa]

I must admit I am still drawn to KDE4 and Kubuntu 14.04 .

Rich, I looked at Kubuntu 14.04 and trialled one of the Beta versions, but am still running
12.04 alongside MX-14 - which does most of the day to day tasks. Does 14.04 show any
great advances over 12.04?

Gordon.

I never used 12.04 so cannot say. I did use 13.04. then 13.10. I would characterize the changes from them as subtle, and as they say "under the hood", as well as bug fixes.

I've kinda been wondering about the same thing; I've got Kubuntu 12.04 here.

A few things to look at:

http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-14.04
http://www.tuxarena.com/2014/04/taking- ... -kde-4-13/
http://www.webupd8.org/2014/04/see-what ... se-of.html

I'm sticking with Kubuntu 12.04 for now, although I've already replaced Ubuntu 12.04 with Ubuntu 14.04. I think I might want to install Kubuntu 14.04 after the first point release, but I'm quite happy with 12.04, so maybe I'll just keep it.

[asqwerth]

I have Kubuntu 12.04 on my laptop and it's fine. Was installed as 11.04 and I followed the system's notifications and instructions to upgrade to 12.04 without problems.

Reliable Buntu+KDE LTS system without the Ubuntu hype and commercialism. I didn't like the Muon package manager but it's no trouble to install Synaptic.

It is the one distro I have that I don't customise, save for turning the wallpaper switcher on and very minimal desktop effects (very slightly wobbly windows and Expose). It seems to be a very pure expression of KDE.

Not intending to upgrade to 14.04 at the moment.

[Gordon Cooper]

I never used 12.04 so cannot say. I did use 13.04. then 13.10. I would characterize the changes from them as subtle, and as they say "under the hood", as well as bug fixes.

Thank you and others for the comments. On a Ubuntu group that I read, several have had problems with
parts of their 14.04 installations, I'll stay wth 12.04 for now.

[lucky9]

My 12.04.x wasn't installed until the 12.04.1 version. But I upgraded the kernel and version of KDE so it's no longer based on 12.04 LTS. But I'll wait for the point release to even download it.

[NGIB]

I spent a few hours last night tweaking the Linux Lite 2.0 Beta and got it working as I want it. Got a remastersys clone installed so I can make a snapshot (that works) and got rid of some stuff and added other stuff. Now I have a 14.04 based system that does what I need it to do. I have it and MX-14 on my work laptop in a dual-boot config so I can work with either system and do some comparisons. The LL I installed is 64 bit and of course MX-14 is 32 bit so I'm doing some real life benchmarking of how the systems work for me. One nice thing about LL is they have alacarte (menu editor) working 100% reliably. I need to change the login manager so I can select the DE I want to use but getting remastersys working reliably was enough for one evening. I tested the snapshot I made last night by writing it to USB and installing the system on my HP Netbook this morning - it worked perfectly...

[joany]

I see there are other KDE aficionados hiding in the shadows.

[richb]

I see there are other KDE aficionados hiding in the shadows.

I am.