Re: Frozen plus cursor

jdavyd williams wrote:

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>>
>> Yes! Exactly what I was about to suggest even before I read the response.
>> That grey cursor often indicates that drag-and-drop is not a possibility.
>> I am fairly sure this only ever shows up when using Firefox. Speaking of
>> Kubuntu, I heard somewhere that is is less stable then Ubuntu, if not
>> more broadly filled with bugs.
>>
>> Hope it helps,
>>
>> Roy
>>
>
> a lot of folks make the mistake of thinking that if you want to run KDE,
> you *have* to run Kubuntu, which is just not so. One can install Ubuntu,
> and then apt-get install kubuntu-desktop, and it will install all the
> required KDE packages.

Kubuntu and Ubuntu actually use identical code/package bases. The ONLY
difference between them is the default window manager that is installed.
In Ubuntu, you get Gnome+GTK, in Kubuntu you get KDE+Qt. If you do a
"server" installation, you get neither, however, if (after completing a
server install) you then "apt-get install kubuntu-desktop" you have Kubuntu
(s/kubuntu/ubuntu/g).

I run both Ubuntu and Kubuntu from default installations and have found no
difference in stability on both IA32 and/or AMD64 platforms. If anything
the KDE systems are more stable and feature-rich than the Gnome ones - but
all the bugs I've experienced are the result of the window manager and/or
desktop environment. The underlying OS has identical stability (or
instability) regardless if the desktop environment.

Usual disclaimers apply. YMMV etc.

James
--
"and i actually like debian 2.0 that much i completely revamped the
default config of the linux systems our company sells and reinstalled any
of the linux systems in the office and here at home.."

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