{"id":2391,"date":"2011-04-29T22:00:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T02:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2391"},"modified":"2011-05-05T19:54:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T23:54:15","slug":"you-asked-kubuntu-or-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2391","title":{"rendered":"You asked: Kubuntu or Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">J<\/span>ust <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=2392\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2392\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/installing_chromium-150x112.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Installing Chromium\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2392\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/installing_chromium-150x112.png 150w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/installing_chromium-300x225.png 300w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/installing_chromium.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>yesterday, Canonical released one of the most important Ubuntu versions of its history: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonical.com\/content\/ubuntu-transforms-your-pc-experience\">&#8220;Natty Narwhal&#8221;<\/a>. The most famous Linux based desktop officially did away with the Gnome shell and replaced it with the Gnome based Unity shell (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unity_(desktop_environment)\">wikipedia to the rescue<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n<p>There was a time (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?tag=ubuntu\">see here<\/a>) that I really wanted to like KDE 4 as opposed to Gnome. I only reverted back to Gnome, because KDE was slower than a pair of mocassins in a pot of molasses. So, yesterday, I started the regular upgrade process: The upgrade to Unity\/Narwhal went fairly smooth and when the much touted shell finally showed up properly, I was fairly impressed. While toy-ish, the window handling appears fairly intuitive (&#8220;Mac-like&#8221;) and the general layout looks, well, clean. However, it&#8217;s buggy and it&#8217;s slow, with disk-activity and processor activity spiking out of control without any particular reason.\n<\/p>\n<p>Returning back to Kubuntu, (you know, all things KDE), I was pleasantly surprised to find out it that is a lot more stable than I&#8217;ve seen almost 1 year ago. Heck, it&#8217;s even usable. Kubuntu or Ubuntu? Kubuntu, for now. Maybe in another year, I&#8217;ll be looking at Unity as my default desktop environment, but as far as it looks like right now, I won&#8217;t be looking at Unity for a while.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"reference\"><em>05\/05\/2011:<\/em> It looks like my laptop (equiped with an Intel 9xx GPU) wasn&#8217;t the only one with sudden freezes: it seems to have been fixed, <a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/xserver-xorg-video-intel\/+bug\/727594\">right a couple of days ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just yesterday, Canonical released one of the most important Ubuntu versions of its history: &#8220;Natty Narwhal&#8221;. The most famous Linux based desktop officially did away with the Gnome shell and replaced it with the Gnome based Unity shell (wikipedia to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2391\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[298],"tags":[411,341,347,113,468],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2393,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions\/2393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}