And installed/ran effortlessly on two of my Kubuntu laptops.
As someone who uses Linux all day, every day, I'm a little lost. WHAT work to maintain it?
It's not my cup of coffee.
Can you explain a bit? I see nothing inferior at all in my new laptop.
This ^.
I did try it though but found it didn't suit my uses, but no horrors though. Real horrors IMO is using Windows in China. I use Linux Mint, along with Android and Mac OS X. Last time I needed Windows for something, was to do the initial root and custom recovery on my Oppo phone, but that was four months ago and it was the easiest guaranteed way to do it. It's now self supporting and doesn't need a PC at all, to do anything with it. The Samsung Win dual-SIM phone I bought last year, requires Windows and Samsung Kies to update it even though I rooted it, because Samsung doesn't do OTA updates for this particular phone, so I never bothered.
If you're happy with what you're using, great! There is no insistence on anyone's part--including mine--that *buntu is best and you should be using it. My whole point, all along, has been that *I* have never seen any of the horrors with Kubuntu that seem to plague you with any *buntu. That's it. I freely recommend other Linux distros not only here but on other forums and newsgroups. Bodhi, for example, which is a fine, lightweight distro for older/slower hardware. I personally like to check out other distros from time to time, just for the hell of it. True, I always go back to Kubuntu, because that's what works best for me. I love its infinite customization possibilities, and its seamless integration with everything I use or need to do--from Nikon DSLR cameras to HP all-in-one printers, it just works.
