[mythtv-users] Adding Kubuntu to Myth+Ubuntu

[Mark Gilmore]

On 5/31/07, Damian Surr <damian at gingermagic.co.uk> wrote:
>
> William Munson wrote:
> > Damian Surr wrote:
> >
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> I have a lovely functioning MythTV running on Ubuntu, but I find myself
> >> fighting with Gnome to configure things so I intend to install the
> >> Kubuntu Desktop on top. Is there any reason not to do this or anything
> >> to be careful of?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > No reason at all other then its another bloated display manager. You
> > would be better off with one of the "lightweight" managers like fluxbox.
> > Load time is about 1/3 that of Gnome/KDE and it does not load lots of
> > background tasks to slow your system down.
> >
> Thanks William
>
> Maybe I'll try Xbuntu as well. That's a nice light weight manager isn't
> it?
>
> I don't really care how long it takes to load as it's a pretty
> negligible amount of time compared to the actual system boot up. 5 more
> seconds once every few days don't matter to me, but if there's a
> difference in how responsive they feel then I'd maybe be interested.
>
> Damian
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I do not have any responsiveness issues using KDE on Kubuntu Edgy.  Running
on a AMD 64 3200 w/ 1 GB of memory with an Nvidia 6150.
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