MS had that happen with 1803, which was actually released in April. Linux Mint release numbers don’t relate to any date in particular, so there’s no pressure to hurry up and get it out the door before it’s not April anymore. Such is the peril of releasing based on the calendar rather than on the state of readiness of any given version… like Windows, Ubuntu releases are numbered by release date, where 18.04 means April 2018. It feels like Ubuntu 18.04 wasn’t really quite ready yet, IMO. Those issues should be taken care of in time. I like the convenience of the ecryptfs system, warts and all in Mint 18.3, it works quite well for me. While Ubuntu has a replacement for ecryptfs in the works, it’s not ready yet. I read that ecryptfs isn’t being maintained/updated as well as it once was, and it doesn’t work properly with some of the changes in 18.04. Kubuntu, like all of the Ubuntu 18.04 versions, no longer offers ecryptfs encryption of the user’s home directory. I tried Mint KDE 17.2, and it was flawless. Kubuntu 15.10 crashed within a few minutes of starting every time I used it back then, and would lock up to the point that I had to reset the PC (before I knew about other ways of regaining control of Linux during a system hang). It happened once before, in 2015 (that time with Mint KDE). This isn’t the first time I had that experience with Kubuntu vs. I ran Mint 18.0 when it came out, and it wasn’t crashy like Kubuntu 18.04 is now. I expect it will smooth out over time, but on the very same PC, Mint worked without any issues at all. With Kubuntu, I had lots of crashes of various sub-components… every few hours, pretty much, something or other was crashing, and they were all different issues. Mint with Cinnamon is boring in its reliability… it just works, day in and day out. A far cry from the cartoonish looking KDE from a decade ago!įWIW, I tried Kubuntu 18.04 recently on a couple of different PCs, and I ended up going back to Mint with Cinnamon. A good decision!īut I may have to take another look at these newer KDE Plasma distros, starting with Manjaro and Kubuntu. But it was a bit buggy, and KDE Plasma seemed barely out of beta at the time. I installed a Kubuntu release a few years ago, and even tried it as my daily driver for awhile. I think it now may be the most polished looking desktop of any available today. The extensive amount of user help online for Ubuntu makes it easy to solve most issues with using a Debian/Ubuntu/Mint flavored distro.įinal thought about KDE Plasma. A bit less techy than Arch, or at least more ease of use for casual or new Linux users.Ģ. So that could mean better familiarity under the hood for those that have already used Debian/Ubuntu/Mint, etc. I think a possible advantage with Kubuntu over Manjaro, is that it is based on the same repositories used by Debian/Ubuntu.ġ. Very stable and it detected all of my hardware out of the box. The desktop appears to be very similar to the KDE Plasma used by Manjaro. I tried a bootable live version of Kubuntu recently, with KDE Plasma, and it was a smooth ride. I think an attractive alternative to Manjaro may be the Kubuntu KDE Plasma flavor of the Ubuntu distro. You have your Microsoft Office Online, and even Skype.” You launch the apps, you sign in online, and there you have. And you can pin them to the task manager and everything. Well, isolated single-page Webkit applications, but applications nonetheless. “And they come up as proper applications, too. Yes that’s right! Microsoft Office Online icons in your start menu, or on your desktop. But the big surprise was that it comes straight out of the box with two things that Windows users might want. This was a review of a recent KDE Plasma based install of Manjaro, and he generally likes it, with a few niggles. So I ran across this Manjaro review by a frequent reviewer of all things Linux by the name of Dedoimedo. I have never had the urge to compile my own Linux distro from source code, and I always had the impression that Arch attracts mostly users who do. Nothing against Arch, but that is one branch of the Linux tree that I have avoided due to it’s deep geek status. Never paid Manjaro much attention before due to it being an Arch Linux based distro. ĭigging in deeper, I read a few reviews to see what’s up. So I ask why? That is actually just the page hits per IP address per day, not the actual count of installed distros. I see that Manjaro has been in the number 1 spot for the past 6 months.
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