Kubuntu Vs. KDE Neon

[TWPonKubuntu]

Thanks Vinny

[chimak111]

o.k. thanks guys with what was said about the driver manager and the software center i'm leaning more towards kubuntu. not a huge fan of discover or neon's driver manager. as for installing other apps i've gotten where i prefer the ppa's if i can find one, then deb, then snap of flat.

Minor point: in post #5, claydoh wrote

"Kubuntu:
Has some Ubuntu-specific utilities, such as the Driver Manager and the Software Sources tool that are missing in Neon."

Apparently, Neon doesn't come with Software Sources (aka software-properties-kde).

[WWDERW]

o.k. thanks guys with what was said about the driver manager and the software center i'm leaning more towards kubuntu.

You may have to have use the PPA for the driver manager on Kubuntu. My experience with 18.04 is that the driver manager just kept on searching and never could find what needed a driver (and on my office rig with 3 monitors, I have to have the driver, the others just use the included one). Positive note, I was able to get 430. Been rocking 390 for far too long.

i've gotten where i prefer the ppa's if i can find one, then deb, then snap of flat.

Have you looked to see if the latest and greatest is offered as an AppImage or binary archive? That's usually my favorite method and for those that do include that method, it makes getting the latest and greatest easier while regressing to an earlier version if necessary. AppImage is kinda like Snaps/Flat, but without needing that separate "repo" for those formats.

[claydoh]

which is pure bs. plasma 5.16 plasma, and the update to restore the rooting of dolphin should of been done yesterday a the roughly 700 updates done for kde apps and dependencies. i get the impression that neon goes out of their way to not give the the endusers what they want, especially since they did have one dolphin update listed yesterday.



1. yea i didn't mention it here, but on the kde forums i did mention that i missed seeing the second column where the dates were concerned. 2. in the time it took you to ask for the info you could of looked it up yourself. 3. i'll see if i added a link to any of my post for it on the kde forums.

I am still looking for any links showing where anyone has specified that Dolphin's 'fix' would be in a specific release.
Do you have any?
I am a regular on KDE's forum, and Reddit and can't find mention as to an eta yet.

[acheron]

Nothing was scheduled to land in KDE regards dolphin/kiofile root access or privilege escalation, as far as I am aware.

[TWPonKubuntu]

LeftistDirtBag, Need a link to that information, please...

[acheron]

according to the devs YES we are getting root back.

I said nothing scheduled to land. Privilege escalation in Dolphin is a WIP, on which work is seemingly not progressing quickly with any firm ETA at the moment.

[Snowhog]

See: https://askubuntu.com/questions/9906...olphin-as-root

The first answer (identified with the green check mark) is from our Rog131, and he knows of what he speaks when he makes his posts.

[TWPonKubuntu]

Thank you Snowhog and acheron.

[Don B. Cilly]

Well, from reading all that on Ask Ubuntu, the obvious "solution" appears - to me - to install Krusader.
Which I did, and it's true, no dependencies, and... it looks to me quite superior to Dolphin.
Root mode aside (it does give a warning) it just packs a lot more useful information and tools out-of-the-box, it's two-panel and you can navigate with arrow keys.
It's like a Norton commander (actually Terminate commander, because of the arrow keys :·) on steroids.
I love it.

[acheron]

since it is planned to restore to dolphin what is so hard since we can create a shortcut that will give us root access. this means root is in dolphin but hidden.

Since it is not planned to restore full GUI root like that AFAIK, for same reasons as before.

[acheron]

Well, from reading all that on Ask Ubuntu, the obvious "solution" appears - to me - to install Krusader.

Krusader is awesome.

[chimak111]

See: https://askubuntu.com/questions/9906...olphin-as-root

The first answer (identified with the green check mark) is from our Rog131, and he knows of what he speaks when he makes his posts.

You outed Rog