* Richard G. Riley wrote in alt.os.linux.debian:

> "Johannes"posted the following on 2006-03-06:
>
>> Am 06.03.2006 22:03 schrieb AnonymousFC4:
>>> Hello:
>>> I am using Fedora 4 and SUSE 10... and more and more SUSE.
>>>
>>> I have tried the latest (beta) of FC5, and am moderately impressed:
>>> I am not talking about the bugs, I am talking about ease of use!
>>>
>>> I am considering installing UBUNTU but hesitate between UBUNTU and
>>> KUBUNTU. I like KDE, which I find usually a better GUI than GNOME,
>>> also KDE platform progress faster than GNOME.
>>> Would appreciate comments and advises.
>>> Also is the XFS file system properly supported under (k)UBUNTU?
>>> And last but not least can you have UBUNTU and KUBUNTU with a login
>>> option? Thanks.
>>
>> Kubuntu and ubuntu are equal. The only difference is the installed
>> desktop. You can get kubuntu from ubuntun, if you install the
>> kubuntu-desktop.
>>
>> XFS should be no problem.
>>
>> What do you mean with login option?
>
> KDE and Gnome are far from equal IMO.

Not at all what was said. The comparison was against the [K]Ubuntu
distros.

> One is not necessarily better
> though : depends what you want. Since the "desktop" is the GUI to the
> tools you will use to do a productive job then then things are very
> different as are the installed applications.
>
> On my machine KDE was unstable unfortunately which is unfortunate
> because I prefer KDE over Gnome from what Ive seen as a general
> rule.

So run your KDE apps under Gnome and see if your stability issues are
still there.

--
David