Kubuntu 16.04 now working without issues

[NickStone]

I've returned to Kubuntu and installed 16.04 due to it's LTS nature. However, I noticed a few bugs in the K desktop and other K packages so have replaced the K desktop with XFCE and other K packages with GTK+ equivalent, have also replaced apt with pacman and systemd with sysVinit.

Kubuntu is now working without issues.

[chimak111]

Calling it Kubuntu now somehow seems odd

[oshunluvr]

Calling it Kubuntu now somehow seems odd

[GreyGeek]

Calling it Kubuntu now somehow seems odd

I don’t think he uninstalled KDE, he just added XFCE and some GTK+ based apps. That’s the beauty of Linux.

I’ve been toying with the idea of adding XFCE just to try it out. First I will take a Btrfs snapshot, then install it. If I don’t like it or it breaks my system then I am only 3 minutes away from my old setup.
That’s the beauty of Btrfs!

[chimak111]

For playing around, I'm trying cloning with qemu/kvm. I've got a minimal iso that I clone and add what I want to see what explodes ...

[vinnywright]

I’ve been toying with the idea of adding XFCE just to try it out.

I always add fluxbox just in case I get locked out of KDE for some reason , to have some kind of GUI to fix things in .
it is very minimal .

VINNY

[GreyGeek]

Interesting! I'll add that too!

[vinnywright]

Interesting! I'll add that too!

LOL , yes , and why not with a role back a rename away

VINNY

[vinnywright]

Interesting! I'll add that too!

PS: all the meues are text files , at first it populates with manly xwindow apps but you can add whatever .

exampel from /home/vinny/.fluxbox/fluxbox-menu

  [submenu] (File Management) {}
        [exec] (Brasero) {/usr/bin/brasero} <>
        [exec] (K3b) {/usr/bin/k3b} </usr/share/pixmaps/k3b.xpm>
        [exec] (mc) { x-terminal-emulator -T "mc" -e /usr/bin/mc} </usr/share/pixmaps/mc.xpm>
        [exec] (dolphin) {/usr/bin/dolphin} 
     [end]

header

# This is an automatically generated file.
# Please see <file:/usr/share/doc/menu/README> for information.

# to use your own menu, copy this to ~/.fluxbox/menu, then edit
# ~/.fluxbox/init and change the session.menuFile path to ~/.fluxbox/menu

VINNY

[GreyGeek]

Wow!
That was an interesting trip down memory lane! Especially FluxBox, which is so similar to Xwm stuff, my first desktop manager on RH5. I'm going to keep them for old times sake, until I do a fresh install of KDE Neon using the 18.04 release, when its ready, not beta. That installation should last till this laptop dies.