Comments on: Walking the (Kubuntu) Linux Walk http://blog.eronj.com/2006/11/19/walking-the-kubuntu-linux-walk/ Ron K. Jeffries -- Listen, read, think, write. Rinse and repeat as needed. Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Bill Cavnar http://blog.eronj.com/2006/11/19/walking-the-kubuntu-linux-walk/#comment-28800 Bill Cavnar Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:12:27 +0000 http://blog.eronj.com/2006/11/19/walking-the-kubuntu-linux-walk/#comment-28800 I can't speak for Kubuntu, but I whole-heartedly agree with your comment about Ubuntu. It is by far the easiest Linux distro I have used to date, with respect both to initial installation, and to updates. The Synaptic update manager is very simple to use. Of course, not every package I wanted to install was available through Synaptic. Most of the time, I was able to find and download the appropriate .deb file from someplace online. On one occasion, I did run into a weird situation where package A required package B to be installed first, and package B required package A to be installed first. I gave up on that one. Everything else worked just fine. I can’t speak for Kubuntu, but I whole-heartedly agree with your comment about Ubuntu. It is by far the easiest Linux distro I have used to date, with respect both to initial installation, and to updates. The Synaptic update manager is very simple to use.

Of course, not every package I wanted to install was available through Synaptic. Most of the time, I was able to find and download the appropriate .deb file from someplace online. On one occasion, I did run into a weird situation where package A required package B to be installed first, and package B required package A to be installed first. I gave up on that one. Everything else worked just fine.

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