I've been a long time KDE user, and Kubuntu user, but recent comments by a friend have inspired me to switch to Gnome/Ubuntu on one of my daily use workstations.

After fixing a couple of things I'll detail later, I', actually quite happy with it. Gnome has come a long way, and if you just want it to "work", then it does. Sure, KDE is great for tweaking, but does it get any more work done? I don't know. I suspect not.

I'm about to reinstall my laptop (needs it anyway), and my main desktop with Feisty Ubuntu. I'll keep a bit of details here on how I go.

The laptop is an ASUS M2400N, and has been running great with an old install of edgy, that has been upgraded to dapper, and through the feisty betas. However, it has a lingering windows partition I'm keen to rid myself of ;-)

The desktop has been "tweaked" a little more with beryl and compiz experimentation, and I think that a clean installation will do it good.

Oh well, off to backup critical things before fdisk makes its mark.