I have wasted a LOT more than just a weekend configuring Debian and I hate it.
But so far I'm turned off at Kubuntu. The Keyboard is NOT configured properly and so far I'm in for five (5) hours. Next the disk is NOT partitioned even remotely as it should be. So I will try a live re-partitioning maybe this evening. I do use apt - its great. I've got both the Kubuntu and Debian install disks here and I'll stay with Kubuntu for the time being. Currently I run Debian on my main 'puter but this may change to Kubuntu. We'll see how it goes. Next step is getting the keyvboard on the new machine running. On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 05:14:47PM -0600, Gustin Johnson wrote: > Ubuntu is great because it has the awesomeness of apt (I am particularly > fond of aptitude) while taking a more pragmatic approach to hardware > support (proprietary firmware blobs etc.). > > In a perfect world I would choose Debian. For this imperfect world we have > Ubuntu. > > If you want to waste a weekend just getting something simple configured > like your wifi or dual/triple/quad monitors, then Debian is just the > ticket. If you expect some of those things to just work, then Ubuntu is > probably your best bet. I say this with love, I just do not have the time > nor inclination to wrestle with Debian on the desktop any more. Ubuntu-LTS > is my go-to distro these days. > > Fedora might be OK, I just hate the package manager (yum was an > improvement...). > > If you suspect that a package was not installed, you can get the whole > kubuntu experience by installing the virtual package "kubuntu-desktop". > > > On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Anand Singh <an...@linizen.com> wrote: > > > On 2012-04-09, at 2:14 PM, t...@terralogic.net wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > The Keyboard locale is set for en-us UTF-8 but some of the keys are not > > mapped properly. > > > > > > Its an IBM PC-104 KB... standard which I've used for over a decade. > > > > > > for instance the ?/ key gives a little e and a big E with I think two > > (2) dots on it. the ~` key gives * and some thing else. > > > > > > > > > How can I fix this. My next option is to give up on Kubuntu and go to > > Debian. > > > > > > I think a HUGE number of packages I expect to be installed are missing > > anyways. Comments? Why is Ubuntu so great? > > > > > > > In your Gnome settings - Region and Language "layouts" tab, make sure > > English (US) is set as the layout for all windows. I can't remember the > > exact wording or how to find it as I haven't used Gnome in a while. Hope > > that helps. A few years ago Ubuntu had a bug where installation settings > > were not applied to layouts. I assume it has been fixed by now. I also > > don't have an answer for why Ubuntu is so great. > > > > Anand. > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > clug-talk@clug.ca > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
