Kubuntu and Xubuntu, two improved and recommended products

I have something very clear: since Kubuntu y Xubuntu they happened to be maintained by Community, they have become excellent distributions.

The step was logical. Canonical, led by his CEO in the shadows, he always had a very clear objective and had nothing to do with making these variants, something better, therefore, the best thing was to deliver it to Community of users helping them only with the necessary infrastructure to host the repositories, isos, etc ...

Far from getting worse Kubuntu y Xubuntu They have known how to carry on with flying colors, they have been reborn like a Phoenix. Both distributions have not only gained in quality, but in stability, performance, beauty and this can be seen in the latest versions available if we had the opportunity to compare them with the previous ones.

Yesterday I installed both distributions in VirtualBox and I was really very satisfied.

De Xubuntu I don't have much to contribute, because as everyone knows, lately KDE is occupying my desk about Debian Testing, but in the tests I have done both in LiveCD as in Virtualbox, they have left a pleasant taste in my mouth.

The Community behind this variant has taken care to work on every detail, especially the artwork, and the result is appreciated. Xfce 4.10 arrived in time to enhance the experience of xubuntu, And if we want something "light" for our computer, it would not hurt to give it a try, as long as we are not too demanding with the functionalities.

Meanwhile Kubuntu It comes to us in an iso that weighs more than 900MB, sporting a brand new KDE 4.9 that shows its improved performance. If some time ago they had asked me about a distribution pro KDE to use, no doubt I would have mentioned Chakra u openSUSE, but currently I can include without hesitation Kubuntu although my Debian not bad either.

Kubuntu years ago it earned the title of one of the worst distributions pro KDE It was not for less. Sure, the change KDE 3.X to version 4.X I also influence a little, but the past, past.

In short, despite dragging the suffix "Ubuntu" in their names, I consider that these distributions each day move further away from the nest that saw them hatch (canonical) and as they mature, their reputation is being cleaned with tangible facts and not just words. +1 for both ... 😉


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  1.   rafagcg said

    Today I have installed Xubuntu 12.10 and fine. Actually I installed Ubuntu 12.10 and it is infumable of slow, at 90 minutes I have removed it and installed Xubuntu 64bit. I have installed the Privative of nVidia, Chrome and Spotify and honey about everything, 306Mb of RAM occupies, I have 4Gb, and everything goes super fast. What a difference !! I suppose there will be other more optimized Xfce distros, but I don't like to do plumbing if I don't feel like it. And we like it more or less, it must be recognized that with the "ubuntu scene" having all the repositories and tutorials already solved is very comfortable.
    the machine is this:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dOyliyroZg
    in case you want to see my freak, heh heh.

  2.   Tesla said

    Very good article. I think the direction Canonical is taking is quite debatable. (Although there will be people who feel comfortable with Ubuntu)

    And if the release to the community of these two distros has been won, welcome.
    Most of the cases that I know of people who have switched to Linux (including mine) have gone through Ubuntu at some point and then we have unchecked ourselves to others. Now, for this type of people, there will be more options, and also, although it is difficult for some to recognize it, the suffix -ubuntu makes things quite easy for people who start in this vast world that is Linux with millions of distributions to choose from.

    So, I repeat, welcome are these improvements.

    By the way, elav, as far as performance (recently installed) is concerned, is there something that these distros have in favor of, for example, a Debian + XFCE or KDE? Or is it more for the artwork and the ease they provide? Obviously being aware that in any distribution performance can be greatly improved if you know how.

    A greeting! And congratulations on the article

    1.    ariki said

      "By the way, elav, as far as performance (just installed) is concerned, is there something that these distros have in favor of, for example, a Debian + XFCE or KDE?"

      I know I am not elav, since I am not bald yet and I do not listen to regaetton (there I love to argue about music hahaha) and I do not have so much knowledge in computer matters but if I can comment on something that happens in my notebook with what you ask:

      Debian Testing plus XFCE 4.8 consumption at startup of 135mb, this changes when using ati proprietary driver which translates into 100mb more when booting with what remains in 235mb, I do not know what it will go but apparently the proprietary driver consumes more than the free
      Xubuntu 12.10 + xfce 4.10 consumption when booting of less than 265mb and changing the driver around 330mb, that is more less the consumption that has given me.

      Now I can tell you that xubuntu is not completely light and tends to stick with some programs, for example it hits me twice while I have open office using spreadsheets, free version office 3.65, now in debian it does not happen to me That's more, the only thing that makes me a bit angry is not being able to update xfce 4.8 from the official repos, that now I have been using xubuntu for almost three weeks and I will leave it one more week to finish my tests, I forgot and the most important for My battery life in debian plus minus 5 hours and xubuntu still can't exceed 3 hours, that's a greeting Ariki

      1.    elav said

        The problem with Xubuntu is that it loads a series of daemons / applications to make Xfce more end-user friendly… That is the difference between Xubuntu and Debian with Xfce. My Xfce with Debian started me (with 1GB of RAM) with 67MB.

        1.    ariki said

          67 mb i assume it is because you have nvidia card ?? because I know that the drivers for ati are one! »$» hehehe greetings elav.

          1.    elav said

            I have never used NVidia or ATI, I have always had integrated Intel 😉

          2.    giskard said

            I all have an ATI. It is an old ATI but it is ATI. And my LinuxMint with XFCE boots up using just over 120MB. And that's because I put the Mint menu in it. Another one that I have out there has an nVidia and I mounted the latest Xubuntu on it, the RAM usage is below 130MB.
            Check what things are loading at startup. Most likely, you have things you don't need already loaded. For example, do you use Bluetooth every day and every so often? No? Then don't charge it. Things like that.
            The only thing that "hung up" on me was Pidgin, which for some reason was using too much CPU. Solution: I made a script and limited its CPU usage to 20%. Now it never hangs.

  3.   Ruben said

    Kubuntu I don't know but Xubuntu is a blast. I started using it when Unity came to Ubuntu and it hasn't left my PC since. The only thing I don't like too much is the appearance, but hey, you can change the subject.

    1.    giskard said

      If you have the latest Xubuntu (or one that you have put XFCE 4.10 on) you can mount the MintMenu and the aspect improves a little more. So I have a machine with Xubuntu.

  4.   gaston said

    I have been with Kubuntu for a couple of months now and the truth is that it works very well. I wanted to leave Ubuntu because I didn't really like Unity anymore, so I started with LMDE, but at the same time I got tired and there were some little things that were not working well and I started testing distributions with KDE. I started with OpenSuse, then Chakra and some others, but in all of them I had problems with the sound. Install Kubuntu and it was all done at once.
    regards

  5.   jorgemanjarrezlerma said

    I share with Elav the expression of these two variants of the * untu family since I consider that they have remained faithful to their base environment (XFCE and KDE). I think both are part of the best distros under your desktop since XFCE fills the expectations and KDE (although I'm not a user of this environment) have done an excellent job.

    Personally, I would also add Lubuntu, the variant with LXDE since, like XFCE, they provide a clean, lightweight, simple alternative, a large number of applications, repositories and without unnecessary complications.

  6.   Hugo said

    Until now I had had my reservations towards any version of Ubuntu because I disliked the default package selection and had preferred LMDE, but I suppose it is time to move to something else so as not to stagnate. I was considering SolusOS or Debian testing with KDE, but if Kubuntu is really stable and well done right now, maybe I will give it a try (relying on QT would give me a great excuse to put one of my favorite file managers after all: Krusader)

  7.   For Elav said

    There are several themes that are very similar to each other, I think they already tend to be repetitive.

    1.    elav said

      I think I do not have the need to remember that this is a blog and if the users who visit us know the concept and the philosophy behind that word (blog, blog), they will know that there are no restrictions on what is published, as long as it has to do with GNU / Linux.

  8.   left handed said

    The only thing that Kubuntu lacks is a good theme that makes it feel like its own distribution, for my taste its appearance is very generic just installed, and I don't like that wallpaper at all.

    1.    raerpo said

      +1 I think that's what kubuntu lacks the most at this time.

    2.    Ignatius Monge said

      Bingo.
      I think Kubuntu could count on Macer for its theme, like Chakra already does, and create something special for this distro.

      1.    left handed said

        Macer? The creator of the Dharma theme?

      2.    pandev92 said

        Is that Malcer uses chakra xD

    3.    kvothe said

      Totally agree, it lacks a theme and wallpaper that gives it personality, even if we change them after 5 minutes.

    4.    Dorian said

      I very much agree with you!

      In fact, in my point of view, the look and feel of all the distributions from Ubuntu to Lubuntu should be similar so that as mentioned before they feel like "sister" distributions.

      Regards!!!

  9.   Luis Alberto said

    Since you mention that you are a Debian testing user, I would like your opinion of this version of the distro as a personal desktop.

    1.    elav said

      Great once you have everything set up 😉

    2.    ariki said

      According to elav debian testing incredible !!

  10.   Anonymous said

    Good for Kubuntu and Xubuntu, of these two, Xubuntu is the one that has always given me the least problems, that's why it is the one I recommend when someone wants to install a 'buntu'.

  11.   platonov said

    I use Xubuntu 12.04 64 bits and it flies, the best thing I have tried; that if making up, removing unnecessary services and adding various programs.
    I didn't know that Xubuntu was maintained by the community. Is that good or bad?.
    I personally prefer community-maintained distros over corporate-owned ones.
    Could you advise me on the Xubuntu community forums?
    Thank you

    1.    elav said

      Well, I suppose that the reasons why you prefer a distribution maintained by The Community, are the same ones that answer your question if it is good or bad, not that Xubuntu is maintained by it.

  12.   Benpaz said

    very good friends DesdeLinux I used both (Kubuntu and Xubuntu) the truth is that you can see the difference in terms of performance, Xubuntu has several points ahead of Kubuntu in performance, now some say that XFCE is ugly, a lie, what happens is that you have to know how to configure and tune it. Now I am comfortable with my Xubuntu 12.10 at work and home. Now I feel more and more related to Linux, I tell you that in my work I managed to convince my colleagues to use Linux (whichever version works best with their hardware) and ps now we are all "FREE".
    Congratulations for the great work «DesdeLinux», a round of applause for them.

    1.    william_oops said

      BenPaz, it is very positive that you have brought your colleagues closer to this world of, but for them to really be "FREE" (FSF concept), as you write, they should consider calling the system "GNU / Linux" instead of just Linux , otherwise they would be rather "OPEN" (who is more sympathetic to the idea of ​​Open Source)

      Greetings.

      1.    Benpaz said

        Thanks for questioning me hahaha so I found out: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU
        Now if you understand.

    2.    elav said

      Thank you… 😉

  13.   Emanuel said

    This article is good for me to think about the OS that my laptop should carry.

    I have been using Kubuntu 12.04 for about a month and a half and I liked it a lot, after denying KDE for a long time I could not find flavor. One of the best things it has is Dolphin, Okular and Amarok, and it is also visually very attractive.

    As against is the consumption of RAM (and energy): 1.3 GB just have Firefox and Amarok open (and that I already disabled several things). Although I generally use the laptop directly to the current and without battery, when I use it only with battery I see its life reduced and I cannot find in KDE how to see the estimated time that it has left to charge (I do see the percentage but I am also interested in the time ).

    On the other hand, I see Xubuntu that it goes faster, turning it on consumes just over 300 MB (about 600 MB if I have Firefox and Clementine) and it is not ugly at all. In addition to the gtk programs are better integrated, it allows me to see the estimated battery time (and lasts longer), I manage the screen brightness better and everything flows soon. The downside is that Thunar doesn't suit me and it doesn't have the bombastic effects of KDE.

    I know it is difficult but what would you do? Kubuntu or Xubuntu on the laptop and why?

    It is a Samsung 300VA4A: Intel Core i3 and 4 GB RAM. My hardest use of it is editing photos and building web pages.

    Thanks for the help. Regards.

    1.    Benpaz said

      Friend Emanuel I have a laptop with the same characteristics and the truth is that I decided on Xubuntu, I tell you my reasons; (NOTE this is my Toshiba i3 laptop with 4 ram):
      + Lower consumption of ram memory and processor.
      + Does not heat up much.
      + It's lighter, apps fly.
      + And the truth is when using Wine or CrossOver, "Windows" applications and games develop better.
      + About Thunar install version 1.5.1 this good.
      + Besides, it has the Ubuntu Software Center, which for me is very good.
      ——— I hope you can decide.

      1.    Emanuel said

        BenPaz:

        I think you have made me see a huge advantage of Xubuntu: the machine heats up less. That may not be noticeable on a desktop but on laptops the stress is impressive.

        Thanks for the reply. Hugs.

        1.    I have said

          I have a similar laptop, i3 with 4Gigas ... and I prefer to load a kde, since it gives me functionalities that I use and that xfce does not have, for example, krunner that has become indispensable to me, the activities, some effects, the kioslaves ... and I use almost All own tools of kde (dolphin, okular, kate, kmail, basket, yakuake) or qt (vlc, clementine) and very little of gtk (libreoffice and chromium).

          1.    Emanuel said

            hai:

            That's what I like about KDE, it has a lot of programs that are quite good. How is your laptop battery doing? Does the machine get very hot?

            Greetings.

  14.   Bob fisher said

    With Xubuntu I don't know, I have only tried it in Virtual Box and it seems very functional and elegant, but with Kubuntu I have to give you absolutely right. It's the distribution I use and my computer works better every day.
    Interesting entry. Regards.

  15.   lguille1991 said

    I really have tried both and I must accept that both Kubuntu and Xubuntu are better options than Ubuntu ... I spent almost 2 years with Xubuntu and it is one of the best distros I have had, although because it is based on Ubuntu which with each version consumes more resources and it is more full of bugs it is not as light as it is supposed to be ... a couple of days ago I switched to Manjaro Linus XFCE and now I know what stability, simplicity and speed are ... anyway cheer up the team of Kubuntu and Xubuntu and then hopefully they don't do anything else without improving!

  16.   merlin the debianite said

    My first distro with linux was kubuntu 5.04 and the truth is that it has improved a lot compared to xubuntu, I tried version 8.10 and it seemed to happen.
    wheat.

    For what they have improved they must be great but for some reason I do not encourage myself to try since I do not have time and especially now with p ... to seminar of "Computer seminar" (Microsoft Office Seminar) I have to have windows 7 in a partition go hassle. When I have time I may try only the livecd since I do not dare to change my LM 13 with KDE on my laptop and My debian testing on the desktop.

    XD

  17.   x11tete11x said

    I was really surprised by Kubuntu, it's doing very well! :OR

    here is a caption of when I used Kubuntu 12.04 😀 (now I returned to my preferred distro haha)

    http://i.imgur.com/pe9Zy.jpg

    1.    x11tete11x said

      Now that I remember the only thing that I could not modify was that in the Dolphin for some strange reason the menu said: file instead of file: O

  18.   oscar said

    Hello netizens. I use Xubuntu 12.04 and the truth is that I am delighted. I'm a clumsy linux newbie but this distro is really stable, I'm pleasantly surprised.

    The only question I would ask you is is it worth upgrading to 4.10? Is there much difference or is it better to wait a few years for important changes to come out?

    Is it easy to update and keep not only photos and files, but also all password data in Fierfox, Filezilla, custom settings in Gimp, and tons of other programs I use?

    I apologize if the question is very silly, it is that I am very bad at this, and I take the opportunity to say hello and thank you for your informative work.

    all the best!

    1.    elav said

      Well, for me there is a wide difference between Xfce 4.8 and Xfce 4.10. The latter has elements reprogrammed from scratch, has greater bug fixes, incorporates new functionalities and is also much lighter.

      1.    oscar said

        Thank you! Well, you have convinced me! now I just need to find out the second part of the question ... I will take it easy and learn slowly to save and pass everything to the new version (for me now it is a disorder so it is better to take it easy)

        Thank you very much again!

    2.    KZKG ^ Gaara said

      I think it is worth updating 🙂
      And nah at all, you should not worry about losing data ... you should not lose any, as long as you do not format you should not lose anything 😉

      Greetings friend, and do not worry that the question is not silly 😀

  19.   oscar said

    By the way, I love Xubuntu, stability, speed and simplicity above all else.

    Thank you!

  20.   EAT WITH said

    Very good!
    I will try not to extend too much, since in my comments on Canonical I usually do a half philosophical self-reflection to convince myself of something ... 😛
    To begin with, trying to be objective, I will say that Canonical is to be congratulated for their support of Ubuntu. Unity may not be to everyone's liking, but Ubuntu is very well done.
    I totally agree that Kubuntu is a great distro, both Precise and Quantal. Xubuntu 12.04 I used it for about 3 months, but 12.10 I have only tested it on VirtualBox. Kubuntu Precise seemed much less stable than Quantal ...
    Still, I like GNOME Shell, which is why I sometimes use it in Ubuntu. I really like KDE, the problem is that, who knows why, I eat like 90% in each of my 2GHz cores, while Fedora (and OpenSUSE, I think) with GNOME Shell does not exceed 20% ... Still so I use OpenSUSE with KDE currently; sometimes I have to deactivate the minimized effects so that everything does not slow down, but nothing that using one of the most solid distros of the moment cannot solve ...
    Good luck! 😉

  21.   EAT WITH said

    Wow, magic pottage. It seems that the problem with that ... "overload" is in Firefox. Strange is that it does not happen to me in GNOME Shell: _
    Maybe it's because of the NVIDIA drivers? In GNoME Shell I had not installed them.
    Cheers!

  22.   kondur05 said

    a question elav, kubuntu or debian testing-kde?

    1.    elav said

      It depends on the knowledge you have and how much it bothers you to configure things 😀

  23.   Sergio Esau Arámbula Duran said

    I'm honestly using Kubuntu 12.10 and it's going great; I've been using it for a week and I've been fascinated with it: I think I became Kubuntero XD

    1.    EAT WITH said

      I really think that KDE 4.9 (I just updated it in SUSE) is a marvel ... In 4.8 that came by default there was no way to have the Blur effect and one to minimize the activated windows, after updating, with both activated, the system will like silk, even with GTK applications like Firefox or XChat ...
      The difference in performance is really noticeable, although as my laptop is quite prehistoric it is normal that sometimes I have to deactivate some effect to not die of lag la
      Kubuntu 12.10 is also a great distro, but if you like to experiment a bit I would recommend you try OpenSUSE, for many it is the KDE distro par excellence, and it has excellent administration tools such as YaST or Zypper 😛
      Still I tried to install GNOME Shell and nothing, it does not appear in kdm 🙁

  24.   heiji989 said

    Hello good I am new with this xubuntu and they have sent me a job that I don't know where to start…. If someone can help me (I look at it, but only theory comes out) the problem is that I have to configure all this in virtual machines ... I would greatly appreciate the help 🙂
    Dhcpd.conf file configured:
    • 192.168.1.0 network with the grant range from 192.168.1.30 to 192.168.1.100
    • Default lease time and max lease time by default
    • 2 computers with the static grant:
    o The first one will be called a router, the @MAC will be invented and will have IP: 192.168.1.254
    o The second will be called printer, the @MAC will also be invented and will have the IP: 192.168.1.253
    • db.zona1 file with the following resource records:
    or 2 different nameservers called ns1.iescaparrella.cat and ns2.iescaparrella.cat
    o 1server machine named server.iescaparrella.cat
    o A www alias for the server
    o An ftp alias for the server
    o A cloud alias for the server
    or 4 user computers with the names host1, host2, host3 and host4

  25.   heiji989 said

    All this has to be configured in xubuntu

  26.   Francisco said

    Very good article

  27.   The Lopez's cat said

    I use KDE for aesthetic reasons, I am one of those who likes to modify the desktop and windows and I am looking for something that "fills me" in terms of the appearance of a Computer (laptop)
    I love KDE and it has filled me up, more than Unity, I have not tried Xubuntu much but I am sure it is something of great quality like everything that comes from Linux ...

  28.   John Zamora said

    Currently (2019, the year in which I write my comment), I have installed in Dualboot: Xubuntu 18.04 and Windows 10 (since it is used a lot in the academic environment in which I am immersed), for the management of personal projects and experiments I use a lot of Xubuntu. I do not regret betting and generating awareness of change in pursuit of free software.