My KDE experience
I’ve been playing around with various distro’s for a few years now. Never was ready to make Linux the primary OS, but it was testing them out in a VM environment under Windows.
Finally I got tired of using VMware, so I grabbed an old machine and started looking at the distros out there.
I tried SUSE, Mandrake, and Ubuntu. However once I loaded Kubuntu I was hooked, and have stuck with it since.
I first installed 9.04 as a dual boot environment with XP on my desktop computer. I was amazed how much crisper the image was using the Linux graphics driver than the XP drivers. Plus 9.04 seemed to take full advantage of the on-board 5 channel sound card I have. Music seemed to have more depth to it.
When 9.10 came out I decided to dual boot with it on my notebook (Dell Vostro 1500), but use Kubuntu as the primary OS, and XP for games and such.
Everything worked, with the exception of networking. For some reason Kubuntu could “see” my windows network, but asked for a username/password every time I tried to connect to it. Assorted members on this forum assisted me with this problem, but we never could figure out a resolution.
I ran with Kubuntu as the primary OS for a few months, but between not being able to connect to the network, and can’t play games (Civilization and Simcity), I reluctantly went back to XP as the main OS, and kept Kubuntu around to test and play with.
I looked forward to the release of 10.04, to see if my networking problems would be fixed or not. I decided to do a clean install, so I also went from XP to Vista at the same time.
Once both OS were installed, I fired up the Kubuntu side, and was pleasantly surprised that 10.04 immediately found my network, and I was able to copy files without a problem. Amarok continues to impress me, and I love the look of the OS.
If I could just get the few games I play to work until Kubuntu, I would be happy to just make Kubuntu the primary OS and press on. So for the meantime, I’ll continue to dual boot.
On another note, my five year old son prefers Kubuntu over Windows. He told me that “linux” has better games than Windows.
I’ve found the best way to learn Linux is to simply use it. So I’ll continue to switch to the linux side just to play around with it and learn something new.
I’ve been playing around with various distro’s for a few years now. Never was ready to make Linux the primary OS, but it was testing them out in a VM environment under Windows.
Finally I got tired of using VMware, so I grabbed an old machine and started looking at the distros out there.
I tried SUSE, Mandrake, and Ubuntu. However once I loaded Kubuntu I was hooked, and have stuck with it since.
I first installed 9.04 as a dual boot environment with XP on my desktop computer. I was amazed how much crisper the image was using the Linux graphics driver than the XP drivers. Plus 9.04 seemed to take full advantage of the on-board 5 channel sound card I have. Music seemed to have more depth to it.
When 9.10 came out I decided to dual boot with it on my notebook (Dell Vostro 1500), but use Kubuntu as the primary OS, and XP for games and such.
Everything worked, with the exception of networking. For some reason Kubuntu could “see” my windows network, but asked for a username/password every time I tried to connect to it. Assorted members on this forum assisted me with this problem, but we never could figure out a resolution.
I ran with Kubuntu as the primary OS for a few months, but between not being able to connect to the network, and can’t play games (Civilization and Simcity), I reluctantly went back to XP as the main OS, and kept Kubuntu around to test and play with.
I looked forward to the release of 10.04, to see if my networking problems would be fixed or not. I decided to do a clean install, so I also went from XP to Vista at the same time.
Once both OS were installed, I fired up the Kubuntu side, and was pleasantly surprised that 10.04 immediately found my network, and I was able to copy files without a problem. Amarok continues to impress me, and I love the look of the OS.
If I could just get the few games I play to work until Kubuntu, I would be happy to just make Kubuntu the primary OS and press on. So for the meantime, I’ll continue to dual boot.
On another note, my five year old son prefers Kubuntu over Windows. He told me that “linux” has better games than Windows.
I’ve found the best way to learn Linux is to simply use it. So I’ll continue to switch to the linux side just to play around with it and learn something new.
I haven't tried it myself, though. Let us know if it works, assuming you can find the setup instructions.
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