Goodbye Ubuntu

You can have KDE as the default desktop in Fedora

http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-kde

Fedora 10 is excellent and looks great but they have a philosophy of being very strict about open source so getting proprietary drivers and codecs installed can be a pain. You need to enable the rpm.fusion repository among others. however, their wiki is great and if you are willing to drive the terminal and can read, all should go well. It is a very good distro but nowhere near as easy as Ubuntu.
 
Fedora is to RedHat as Ubuntu is to Debian, sort of.

Fedora is the community base that is used as a testing ground for RedHat whereas Ubuntu is a Debian fork that has gone her own way.
 
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CentOS is to Redhat what Ubuntu is to Debian, more or less, but RedHat and CentOS are aimed at the enterprise market rather than desktop market.
 
quackers said:
Does fedore use the KDE desktop? If yes, can you change it to gnome? As my netbook with xandros has KDE on it and i like the gnome desktop a lot better
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Yeah, you can install any Desktop Enivornment/Window Manager on any distro. And if it's not in the distro's repo you can always build it from source.

Finding your preferred DM/WM is can be as involving as finding your preferred distro..:rolleyes:
 
AJUK said:
Before you give up on Linux entirely, I urge you to give Mepis a try. Its hardware detection is as good if not better than Ubuntu and may work for you. Read some of the reviews on Distrowatch.

http://www.mepis.org/
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mepis

If not, fair enough, at least you tried. Without Linux and OS X there would be no choice - we would all be stuck with Windows. :)
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This might be a good distro for my PC. Anyone know what it makes of Intel ICH8R RAID?
 
The Mad Rapper said:
There's nothing wrong with Ubuntu. If you want to got back to Windows, then fine, but don't **** Ubuntu off to try and justify your decision.
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I find comments like this also don't help. The comments made only serve to put the windows users off more. Unfortunately, amongst many windows users, they see the linux communities as a little unfriendly/unhelpful. This is not the case, however it almost sounds fanboy-ish the comments flying back and forth from both sets of users. I think it's seen as arrogance.

I'm a very experienced Windows user and have, over the past few years, tried to dabble (initially rather unsuccesfully) in Linux flavours. However, that has not made me give up as sometimes Windows just isn't right for the task e.g. networking! I can't believe this area hasn't been properly addressed compared with linux where networking works so well (sorry, I've not gone into details but generally shares etc work better on linux, with windows being a little inconsistent).

People have unfortunately become lazy (myself included) with the fancy GUI's MS have been feeding us. We like our computers to just work. With MS, that is just the case, though oddly enough, this is because it is so well supported by manufacturers. It's like a catch-22. You cannot say this is always the case with linux. I take wireless cards as an example. The newbie user doesn't want to have to go command line to get it working, if at all. This is not the fault of the distro, as mentioned above, but does not detract from the fact that it makes life a little harder when we just want it to work.

On a side note, I actually don't like ubuntu. I tried working with both it and kubuntu but I prefer CentOS for some reason (even though I'm a desktop user). Not sure why but I just prefer it.
 
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