Re: Gnome or KDE

[Robert Fisher]

> On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:57:01 Tom Smith wrote:
>> What's the difference between kde and gnome?  is it purely cosmetic? Eye
>> candy works better in kde? Is one less resource hungry?
>>
>
> KDE aims to give as many configuration options as possible while
> the GNOME team are terrified of including anything that granny won't
> understand.
>
> That's the way I see it anyhow.
>
If I do decide to change (from Kubuntu to Ubuntu), is it safe to use the
same /home partition and simply select the "do not format" option or
should I backup and then reformat the home partition?