[Qgis-user] Kubuntu of Ubuntu?

[neil2 at ansergis.net]

 Thanks Etienne, that is very helpful.

 Neil

 On Thu, 4 Oct 2012 08:44:01 -0300, Etienne Tourigny wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 6:24 AM,  <neil2 at ansergis.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am in the process of selecting a set up for QGIS. I have Windows 
>> and Apple
>> OS but I think I will plump for Linux because it will give me the 
>> widest
>> distribution options. But I have afew questions :
>>
>> a) I am assuming that if I write a python module for QGIS in Linux, 
>> I'll
>> need to adapt it for other OS? Obviously I would need to adapt any 
>> other
>> components the module uses, such as databases, but code for QGIS 
>> itself?
>
> most plugins should work in all platforms, unless they contain
> platform-specific code.
>
> An exception is pyqwt (for plots) which does not work on OSX, but
> that's not an issue.
>
>>
>> b) I have been recommended to use Kubuntu by an experienced software
>> developer, but most of the user posts here and elsewhere  refer to 
>> Ubuntu..
>> does the choice have any impact on the opperation of QGIS or, 
>> equally
>> importantly, the ease of getting advice on Q-GIS-xbuntu issues?
>
> ubuntu/Kubuntu/Kinux Mint are fundamentally the same distrubution, 
> and
> qgis packages are the same.
> Up-to-date packages for qgis are installed via the ubuntugis-unstable
> ppa (see the qgis download page).
>
> But many users have had issues with the Unity desktop that comes
> standard with ubuntu. So if you install kubuntu you will use the kde
> (plasma) desktop instead of unity.
> There is also Linux Mint which is very nice and based on ubuntu, and
> uses either Cinnamon or Mate desktop.
>
> A final note, is that you can install plain ubuntu and add other
> desktops (kubuntu-desktop, cinnamon, mate) pretty easily. It really
> depends on your tastes.
>
> Etienne
>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Neil
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