<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.14.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> Hi Dave,     I started with Kubuntu and have it on an old ThinkPad and I like it.     On my main PC, though, I use gnome.     Here are the differences and advantages as I see them:     Gnome is cleaner but can be sparse.  In my KDE menu, for example, I have a bunch of stuff that I don't want or need but I either installed it out of curiosity and didn't uninstall or it came with KDE by default.  KDE seems more "Windows"-ish, which was appealing to me at first.  But on my gnome machine, I have the programs I want and nothing more.  Having said that, I tend to hunt for programs sometimes if I didn't install them through the Add/Remove programs.  In KDE, stuff just seemed to populate in the menus and it was easier to find them.     I love amaroK too, but have gotten used to Rhythmbox (and would switch to Listen if it would allow me to have my media on a network share).     I love digiKam as well, but I also like F-Spot and gThumb.     Final opinion: KDE looks overdone to me while gnome looks a tad underdone.     It all boils down to preference.  At this point, I'm a gnome guy with a soft spot for KDE.     As I understand it, though, you could run the apps you want on the desktop you prefer.     Am I wrong in this assumption? On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 15:09 -0600, Dave Vanderploeg wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> Hey, I have a few questions I wanted to ask: 1) Are you guys manually adding the [CoLoCo] to the subject of your messages, or is it automatic? I added it this time because I wasn't sure, and I haven't generated a message in a while. 2) Does anyone here use Kubuntu? I've been using Ubuntu for a while but I've never found a program for controlling my iPod until I tried Amarok last night. It's awesome. I don't really have a photo manager I like either and digiKam looks fairly good. So, I need to know what I'm losing if I switch? Any other generic advice about Kubuntu would be great, too. I tried reading some gnome vs kde threads and found them to have surprisingly little information. I'm just looking for practical advice. Dave. </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>