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MX-14 has a built in compositor as well for minimal functions.
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Rich, I looked at Kubuntu 14.04 and trialled one of the Beta versions, but am still runningrichb wrote:I must admit I am still drawn to KDE4 and Kubuntu 14.04 .
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.
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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.Gordon Cooper wrote:Rich, I looked at Kubuntu 14.04 and trialled one of the Beta versions, but am still runningrichb wrote:I must admit I am still drawn to KDE4 and Kubuntu 14.04 .
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.
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I've kinda been wondering about the same thing; I've got Kubuntu 12.04 here.richb wrote: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.Gordon Cooper wrote:Rich, I looked at Kubuntu 14.04 and trialled one of the Beta versions, but am still runningrichb wrote:I must admit I am still drawn to KDE4 and Kubuntu 14.04 .
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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Thank you and others for the comments. On a Ubuntu group that I read, several have had problems withrichb wrote: 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.
parts of their 14.04 installations, I'll stay wth 12.04 for now.
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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.
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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...
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I see there are other KDE aficionados hiding in the shadows.
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I am.joany wrote:I see there are other KDE aficionados hiding in the shadows.
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