From: "Nicholas Wheeler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
You can install kubuntu...which is kde+ubuntu, or xubuntu, which is
xfce+ubuntu. Or you could install ubuntu-server, and then apt-get
install kubuntu-desktop(kde), ubuntu-desktop(gnome), or
xubuntu-desktop(xfce). It's pretty simple. You can also install normal
Ubuntu and use synaptic to install kubuntu-desktop, and you'll get a
choice between kde/gnome. Can't imagine it being any simpler.
I can. I can imagine either
1)An install time option allowing you to choose. Whichever you choose is
installed. They can default it to whichever they wish, I'm not that picky.
OR
2)Pop up a choose desktop dialog upon first boot
OR
3)Install both, choose either you want as a default but provide an easy too
to switch between the two. For example, a GUI that pops up with a list of
desktops, and allows you to pick one.
Lets face it, for a desktop machine the number one concern is the window
manager. Not giving a choice in the matter, or requiring a user to jump
through hoops to get that choice, is completely unacceptable. I've seen any
of the 3 above options in use for the past decade, by a wide variety of
distros. Until Ubuntu starts using one of those or a close analog, I would
never, ever consider installing it. Its a moronic way of handling the
biggest part of a desktop machine. It can be as polished as it wants in
every other manner, if it doesn't let me pick my windowing environment, its
at the bottom of the list for usability.
This isn't even a rant about wether KDE or Gnome or some other thing should
be the default, I really don't care. Its about ease of choice. If in order
to choose I need to jump through hoops, I'm using another distro.
Gabe
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