I’m going to make the switch… from Gnome to KDE. In my Linux Distro of choice this means I will be swapping from Ubuntu to Kubuntu. I gave the live CD a try the other day and I really think it should be a nice change. Hopefully I can figure out all the applications that will be necessary to run things from day to day. Most of the time I’m running a web browser, email, or an Instant Messenger… and those are all included by default. The difficulty will more likely come when I’m trying to fill those niche apps that I’ve found use for with Gnome. I can’t really name anything off the top of my head, but I’m sure there’s something I will miss.
That’s life I guess… No pain, no gain!
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Well, KDE is nice. I really like it. My only problem thus far is that I can’t get flash to work on the 64 bit version of Kubuntu! I’m not sure if it’s a software or hardware issue. Sadly the information printed from Konqueror when run from the shell doesn’t seem to help very much either.
I get a nice black box where the flash animation/video should be and that’s it. I have attempted both the nspluginwrapper (for 32 bit flash) as well as the native 64 bit version which is provided by Adobe. Both suffer the same issue…
Personally I don’t think the above is a deal breaker, but I’m trying to sell my friend Matthew on the idea of Linux rather than using pirated software. For him flash is a big deal though. If I can’t get it to work, what are the odds that he can??
Apparently this is a know bug with KDE. Replacing the default browser (Konqueror) with Firefox seems to do the trick!