After yesterday, I really just wanted to send a push for Kubuntu!
Back in the 1980's... my workplace platform was exclusively Microsoft that eventually included Novell servers and over time, MS NT. As a MCSE however I was curious about this Linux thing I kept hearing about and so I cut my teeth back in '96 when I purchased a Caldera CD--that more importantly came with a cool T-shirt. It wasn't long before there were three of us actively using SuSE that is, until the advent of Warty Warthog! By then we were comfortable with dropping our Windows home PCs in favour of Ubuntu. Besides as South Africans, Mark S was our hero! Then Christmas 2008, a Linux Mint Cassandra CD was bundled with a local IT mag. That pretty much redefined my Linux journey especially during that Gnome 3 transition and I used Mint--and Xfce--exclusively until a few weeks ago...
I was trying to find a CD ripper that would produce a single flac file with a cue sheet.
While I was almost content with a command line solution... it just seemed kinda old-school and rather laborious. Amongst the many Google offered solutions was K3b that I reluctantly installed. Going on in my mind..."what is this KDE thing?" But when K3b did the job way better than any of the other methods... I just had to find my own answer.
I can't say why KDE was never a consideration back in the day but--obviously--I had never used it and had only seen it via the occasional screenshot. So a KDE Neon went into a VMware session but after a few days I was more than convinced... I dropped my localhost Mint Xfce for a Kubuntu Zesty installation.
Yesterday was the one month anniversary!
I am blown away by this KDE experience. Yes.. this version seems a little buggy and yes, it peeves me that some seemingly cool features just don't work out the box and that essential libraries aren't installed by default but hey... I can't foresee a turning back. KDE is an awesome desktop environment!
Back in the 1980's... my workplace platform was exclusively Microsoft that eventually included Novell servers and over time, MS NT. As a MCSE however I was curious about this Linux thing I kept hearing about and so I cut my teeth back in '96 when I purchased a Caldera CD--that more importantly came with a cool T-shirt. It wasn't long before there were three of us actively using SuSE that is, until the advent of Warty Warthog! By then we were comfortable with dropping our Windows home PCs in favour of Ubuntu. Besides as South Africans, Mark S was our hero! Then Christmas 2008, a Linux Mint Cassandra CD was bundled with a local IT mag. That pretty much redefined my Linux journey especially during that Gnome 3 transition and I used Mint--and Xfce--exclusively until a few weeks ago...
I was trying to find a CD ripper that would produce a single flac file with a cue sheet.
While I was almost content with a command line solution... it just seemed kinda old-school and rather laborious. Amongst the many Google offered solutions was K3b that I reluctantly installed. Going on in my mind..."what is this KDE thing?" But when K3b did the job way better than any of the other methods... I just had to find my own answer.
I can't say why KDE was never a consideration back in the day but--obviously--I had never used it and had only seen it via the occasional screenshot. So a KDE Neon went into a VMware session but after a few days I was more than convinced... I dropped my localhost Mint Xfce for a Kubuntu Zesty installation.
Yesterday was the one month anniversary!
I am blown away by this KDE experience. Yes.. this version seems a little buggy and yes, it peeves me that some seemingly cool features just don't work out the box and that essential libraries aren't installed by default but hey... I can't foresee a turning back. KDE is an awesome desktop environment!
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