Kubuntu is the best OS and KDE !!

[linuxboy136]

Well I'm a new Android Developer and I needed to find something that fit my personality and my creativity. I did OSX for awhile but got so bored and was so unhappy. Kubuntu 14.04 with KDE is just so beautiful and since I'm a tron fan that my desktop and workspace are tron lol. The effects are just amazing with 2 monitors and it just flows for development! I'm so happy with KDE that when I get the time I'll give some time towards the KDE community. Just wanted to say my thoughts and hope I posted this in the right forum.

[Teunis]

Thank you for the kind words, I hope the lurking developers read this.
Because I agree with you KDE and thus Kubuntu is one of the finest computer environments available.

If time permits, see if you can help out with KDE Connect, a recent and very nice application to make Android and KDE communicate.

[linuxboy136]

Yea I use that app for my S5 and agreed. I'd love to add more features that blend the Android environment with the Linux desktop. I use to be a hard core Mac guy but always keep going back to linux. I have been running Kubuntu for 3 months and I'm actually so happy when I sit down at my desktop. I'm a geek lol I just love technology that allows modifying to your style. My dell is my main desktop and a MacBook pro 2011 is my linux laptop with Kubuntu as well. I was a primary ios development but Android and Linux lured me so to speak. I will still develop for iOS and Windows but Android is primary.

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[GreyGeek]

The FORCE is strong in that one!

[MoonRise]

[XenoNorth]

True words

[millusions]

great post!

sometimes this needs to be said out loud lol


the other thing is,
Unity: what the frak is that supposed to be? it's so horrible to use, its like something made by microsoft
Gnome I dont mind but KDE is way better.
Cinnamon I found a little buggy and lots of crashes-> very frequen crashes with proprietary ati driver on my laptop, fixed by installing open source drivers..

[anika200]

Nice thread linuxboy, I was just coming in here to say the same thing myself. I find this distro and KDE to be so stable, functional and good looking that I can not even believe it is free. I love it, are there T shirts for sale?

Actually I have donated to kde and related projects many times but it still does not cost as much as running windows or the hardware cost of OSX.

[christw]

Back to Linux again....

KDE was always the best looking desktop and I always built my own kernels and integrated KDE as the UI but I was wary of changing my Vaio from Windows 8 to Linux this time as there is no going back easily if things headed south (with a machine that is OEM loaded with Windows 8). It was with great trepidation that I finally told myself that leaving PhotoImpact behind was my only "con" and made the switch to Xubuntu which has been getting rave reviews. I set up an encrypted filesystem on install and everything went extremely smoothly as I gave it open slather on my hard disk partitions (which somehow Sony had 9 thereof!!!)
The resultant Xubuntu install was indeed very simple and rock solid - installing apps was a breeze, but nothing really looked that enticing- the desktop was flat and without life... the app launcher was simple and without any niceties. long story short I knew I should have gone to a KDE desktop. Kubuntu was just as easy to install (except the encrypted filesystem which I don't need anyway) and after installing it the wealth of information and apps that have appeared in the last six years is great to see. The old apps I was used to seem to have finally come-of-age and are very usable. There seems to be so much to choose from it will take a while to work it all out (and learn how to use Gimp in place of PhotoImpact of course).
The only thing I see that is lacking is a simple font management interface. Some might like editing configuration fiiiles but like I have always said - The delight of a great cup of brewed coffee is in the drinking, not the preparation.
Cheers, another Windows convert

[NickStone]

Kubuntu is the best OS and KDE

Sounds like you've never used DOS.

DOS is the best OS

[millusions]

Sounds like you've never used DOS.

DOS is the best OS

dude, you promised you wont be smoking that stuff no more!

[christw]

Sounds like you've never used DOS.

DOS is the best OS

I first used NewDOS80... anyone remember that?

[NickStone]

dude, you promised you wont be smoking that stuff no more!

Sorry can't help it, DOS is in my DNA

@christw I'm assuming that came out in 1980, I was 11 year then and not yet discovered computers.

[christw]

Sorry can't help it, DOS is in my DNA

@christw I'm assuming that came out in 1980, I was 11 year then and not yet discovered computers.

Yes... NewDOS80 was the DOS that came out for the "TRS-80" in U.S. and the Dick Smith "System 80" in Australia. I began using it in 1981 when I got my first 5.25" Floppy Disk Drive worth $330.00 at the time. I had also upgraded my RAM to a massive 32kB from the standard 16kB lol

[NickStone]

Yes... NewDOS80 was the DOS that came out for the "TRS-80" in U.S. and the Dick Smith "System 80" in Australia. I began using it in 1981 when I got my first 5.25" Floppy Disk Drive worth $330.00 at the time. I had also upgraded my RAM to a massive 32kB from the standard 16kB lol

You were privilaged to have 32KB, the very first computer I had was a Sinclair ZX81 with 1KB which was expandible to a whole 16KB. The only thing you could do with it was write code. It was the Raspberry Pi of its day.