Hello Ladies and Gentlemen!
I have made a little Kubuntu Short-Trip and because it was ... interesting, I want share my Experience. But don't expect an exciting Marco Polo Travel Report.
Why I did that? Well, I thought, I could try again the Plasma Desktop. KDE Neon isn't the right Thing for me; I tried it in the Past and it was okay but had it's Moments (a bit ironic You will see). So, I thought, I try a bit more stable Way. There would be Debian 13. But because Kubuntu 26.04 uses a bit newer Plasma Version (6.6), I wanted to try that.
So, I looked some YouTube Videos about it and there was a very interesting Information what convinces me: When You make a minimal Install of Kubuntu 26.04 it doesn't installs Snap - I mean don't mean that it doesn't install Snap Program Versions, it doesn't install Snapd itself. I was very wondered about that Step but at the same Time I was thankful. So, I wouldn't have to remove it. It's not very complicated to remove it, yes. But when it is away by default, better.
So, I downloaded it, checked the Checksum, created a Bootstick with Impression and then I went in the Kubuntu Land. The Installer is Calamares, not the Ubuntu Thing. That is not a bad Thing. It might not be the best Installer with the fanciest Design but it does the Job. But that it runs in Full Screen, I don't like at all. So, the whole Scaling and Positioning in the Window was not good in my Opinion but it was ... still usable.
So, I used the minimal Install Option and was excited. The Installation went and at the End ... and Error. Some Packages couldn't be removed. I looked at the Output and was ... irritated. To this, I come in a Minute. Because of the Error, I thought Kubuntu wasn't installed. So, I started the whole Thing again - and I got the Error again.
And now I come to the Details: It seems that there was at the End a Process what wanted remove Packages - the Packages that would be there in a Normal Installation (Firefox, Snap, LibreOffice etc.). But: It couldn't remove the Packages because there weren't installed. I only thought ''Hä?''
I have the Impression because of this that the Installation Process would install everything for the Normal Installation and to fit to the Minimal Install removes at the End the Stuff that isn't needed - but in my Case the Stuff wasn't removable. For whatever Reason.
I wasn't in the best Mood because of that and thought ''Now, I have to undo the Partitions and Boot Stuff''. So, I shutdown, removed the USB Stick and then pressed the Power Button to start the Machine. Now, I had the GRUB Menu of Kubuntu and was a bit irritated because there were the Entries for Kubuntu and it's Options. I thought that it would be Dummy Entries but clicked on them but ... Kubuntu started. It was actually installed - as normal Installation (so with the Software Stack installed).
I was sitting again and thougt ''HÄ?''. I don't had the Effort to play around. So, I started in Zorin, and wanted remove Kubuntu. Removing the Partition with GParted wasn't an Issue. But then came the Boot Stuff. I wanted remove it, too but ... There wasn't a Kubuntu Folder in /ect/boot/efi/EFI. But I understood: It is based on Ubuntu. So, I guessed there isn't an extra Folder for it.
Then I thought ''Use efibootmgr''. So, I used that but that doesn't worked, too. I grabbed my Ventoy Stick and used Boot Repair. And that worked fine. Except for one Thing: Instead of an ''ubuntu'' Entry, I have now a ''Kubuntu'' Entry. But I don't care. It works fine.
