Despite the nefarious acronym I decided to give the KDE version of the new Ubuntu a try. I’ve lived in a Gnome environment all my Linux life, but used certain qt based tools, like Yakuake and Opera on a daily basis. Having heard of all the the good things about KDE, I wanted to see the first hand what the buzz is all about. And what I found exceeded my expectations. KDE is very controllable environment that still retains user-friendliness. It’s an environment for the folks with computer skills that does not punish by usability problems in the GUI department, that are ever so often found in the UIs designed by developers. So if you like to set up your system your way in every-which possible way, try KDE. On the other hand I’ll still keep gnome around for my wife. It is plain and simple and does not seem overwhelming to a normal computer user.