Kubuntu on top of Ubuntu?

[Georgi Kourtev]

On Tuesday 08 October 2013 08:44:09 Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 8:10 AM, A.J. Bonnema <gbonnema at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > On 08/10/13 07:50, Georgi Kourtev wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >>   Few days ago I got a new laptop with Ubuntu 12.04 pre-installed by the
> >> 
> >> OEM
> >> (DELL).  As I would like to keep on Kubuntu (which I use since 2008) what
> >> would be the better way -- to install the KDE over the Ubuntu that is on
> >> the
> >> laptop anyway, or to do a fresh Kubuntu 12.04 install?  Any advice or
> >> experience is appreciated.
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> gk
> > 
> > Hey Georgi,
> > 
> > There is no difference other then the initially installed packages.
> > Use muon or muon-packages to install KDE in Ubuntu.
> 
> Caveat: since the installation is Ubuntu, muon is not installed as it
> is part of the KDE packages.
> synaptic as a package manager should work, though
> 
> 
> Regards, Myriam

That is what worries me.  I use only KDE and none of other interfaces 
attracted me.  I tried Debian with KDE and noticed that many of the programs 
are not installed and the Gnome ones are kept as default.
gk