Kubuntu (smile) - ya just gotta love it

[tomcloyd]

New distro. out, eh? So here I am at the forums, to read about it as it happens. Hots news.

* Never could do that with Windows. Not exactly an open source community project, it seems.

Immediately I find a post offering the URL for the torrent I need. I start it up effortlessly. I'm 2/3s of the way through the "So... is Karmic Koala going to be usable?" thread and I get notification that my torrent download is now complete. Damn - how easy is that?

* There is NO experience comparable to this in the Windows world - none that that I ever had, anyway.

BUT WHAT IF IT ALL GOES BAD? Well, it never has, not for me. And if it did, I'd come here and ask for help, got get coffee, come back, and have a pack of suggestions waiting for me. Thanks to this Forum and its small herd of stalwarts, I'm fairly competent (most days) with Kubuntu, get a pile of work done on it every day. run it on two computers with full syncing (thanks to Unison - good lord what a wonderful program), and thank my lucky stars every other breath. This is the computing experience I've been wanting since I first started working with computers as a mainframe operator at U. of Utah in 1968 (Univac 1008).

You couldn't pay me enough to move to ANY walled-garden OS or software community, at this point. I truly am "Linux for life".

OK, gonna install this puppy and fire it up...

[assettt]

Re: Kubuntu (smile) - ya just gotta love it

Myself I've been using it since Breezy badger and the pace of change is unbelievable. Every new version has new exciting stuff and i'm always excited when a new version is announced. Yup Linux for life.

[kjjjjshab]

Re: Kubuntu (smile) - ya just gotta love it

... I truly am "Linux for life"...

Come on now... you must get the urge once in a while to try KDE on OpenSolaris? And surely you fire up a BSD LiveCD every now and then...

[undoIT]

Re: Kubuntu (smile) - ya just gotta love it

Thanks to this Forum and its small herd of stalwarts, I'm fairly competent (most days) with Kubuntu, get a pile of work done on it every day. run it on two computers with full syncing (thanks to Unison - good lord what a wonderful program), and thank my lucky stars every other breath...

Yes! A big thank you to the mods and everyone who contributes to the forums. I've got Kubuntu 9.10 up and running on my primary laptop (and of course I have some questions coming...) :P

And, thanks for mentioning Unison. I've looked for an app with just such functionality now and again but never found anything that worked the way I wanted it to. I've been running rsync with a script I put together just for backups, and Unison looks like it would be great for keeping both my laptops synced. Going to have to investigate further.

[MoonRise]

Re: Kubuntu (smile) - ya just gotta love it

Yep. Even after all these years of using Kubuntu someone always mentions an app that I never heard of but have been searching for. I've seen how forums such as this are invaluable. IMHO.

[tomcloyd]

Re: Kubuntu (smile) - ya just gotta love it

DEFINITELY try Unison. It's way better than cobbling together a script to run rsync. It's an incredibly well thought out and executed utility. I simply couldn't manage my two computers without it.