Can anybody tell me the difference and recommend me one or the other?
What are the pros and cons of both. I have had 2 people in rl tell me one and dont no which to decide
Ty

Ubuntu default window manager is Gnome
Kubuntu default window manager is KDE
Xubunutu default window manager is XFCE

Not to say that it's possible and quite easy to install multiple window managers with any of those distros. Just have to use apt-get.

Personally I prefer ubuntu because I like gnome. However if you are looking for something with lots of applications installed by default and that is maybe a little more intutive use kubuntu for the kde stuff.

If your PC have enough memory go with Kubuntu, because KDE eats lot of resources.

. . . .and the KDE/Gnome wars continue. Your best bet is to try both (there is a way to add KDE if you installed Ubuntu and a way to add Gnome if you installed Kubuntu--just do a search). Chances are you will just like one better than the other. There is no truly objective way to determine which is better for someone else.

I have tried out many Linux distributions at various times and have finally dumped my Windows system and am exclusively running with Kubuntu. I have tried the Gnome-based Ubuntu and found it lacking in areas I found important.

Kubunu, I believe, is the easiest for a newbie to learn. It is clean, relatively intuitive, and I am very happy with its performance. With Gnome, I could not get my audio features to work correctly, but have had NO issues with Kubuntu.

Hopefully, my experience is of some help. I left Windows and I don't want to go back.

*Most* of the differences, are cosmetic. They all work almost 100% the same, with minor differences in menu selections/wording. I personally hate KDE. Gnome and Xfce are both fine, but KDE does install more packages(however, most can be installed under any of the desktop environments). Just choose to insall one, if you don't particularly care for it, you can simply install another desktop from the repositories(w/o downloading and burning another DVD/CD). Then you simply select at the sign on screen, which GUI you want to use. I have a 250gig hard drive, and plenty of processor speed, so I installed all 3 GUI's just for the heck of it...

My Gnome Desktop... The one I prefer, Your *Main* menu, is the Applications menu, which will have submenus like "Sound and Video", "Office" "Graphics", etc... The other Menus pretty much have administrative links(to Synaptic Package Manager, theme managers, preferences, etc.)

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j2...reak/Gnome.jpg

KDE.. Pretty much completely different from Gnome, with all 3 menus combined into the "K" menu. Pretty much the same submenus as Gnome, but the other two menus have been combined into the "K" menu... Like I said, I hate KDE, but thats just my opinion, alot of folks like it.

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j2...nFreak/KDE.jpg

Xfce- Similar to Gnome, all menus/options, etc are under the applications menu and its submenus. Xfce's desktop is also not as resource heavy as KDE/Gnome, so if you're dealing with an older, slower computer, it might be wise to download Xubuntu.

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j2...Freak/Xfce.jpg

Hope that helps...

IGF

This is what i want to be doing lol.
I have decided to see if i can install kubuntu using grub along side my ubuntu and just try both out. Thanks for all the help.

You don't need to install a separate OS....

Just install the KDE Environment. Then after you choose your Ubuntu install from grub, you simply click "Sessions" at your sign on screen, Choose KDE, then sign on.

unless you're just dying to dual boot the same versions of Ubuntu.

Either open a terminal
sudo apt-get install kde

or Open Snaptic Package Mgr by clicking System/Administration.

Do a search for "KDE"...

Go through, and you will see a package called "kde", with the description- THe K Desktop Environment official modules. Right click it, Mark for installation, Click Apply at the top, then watch as it installs. When its done, like i said, just log out, and on the sign on screen, click sessions, choose KDE, and sign on.

IGF

You might want to download the live cd versions of both Kubuntu and Ubuntu and try them out. Select the one you are most comfortable with and install that one.

Choice of GUI is a very personal thing. I would suggest that you try one at a time and give it a couple of weeks to see how you and it adapt to your style of working. When you first use a new GUI, its differences from what you're familiar with make an objective choice almost impossible. I was a KDE user for years and was very familiar with its operation. I gave Gnome a good two week try when I changed from SuSE to Ubuntu. I missed a few things at first and had to use some different applications than I did with KDE but found that ultimately Gnome took fewer steps to do the things I do frequently. I added a couple of simple scripts to Nautilus and now I'm a convert.

what i did was what IndyGunFreak said to, and i found out that i liked using ubuntu, im trying to escape windows, not have a "simillar to windows" style linux.
I upgraded from dapper to edgy, and i love it!
thanks everyone for the replies...

That is not true!!!

There are lots of factors that affect the amount of memory you require. I was running KDE with 128MB but noticed that having multiple applications open slowed things down quite a bit when changing between them. Swap from disk is much slower than memory. Upgrading to 256MB made a big difference. I now run 512MB and find I rarely if ever use any swap space. IMHO tracking your use of swap space gives you an excellent way to determine if more memory will improve performance. Of course my experience is based on how I use my computer. No doubt, there are some application mixes that are more memory intensive than what I use. With 512MB I regularly am running tvtime, firefox and openoffice with a spatering of gedit and terminal use.

KDE or Gnome?
Things I like;

Gnome's GFTP ftp download gui

Gnome's smaller memory footprint

KDE's Konqueror default "browser style" file browsing with full path in a address bar, instead of Nautilus's default "Mac like" window spawning (which I truly hate).

K3B for dvd burning, beats anything in Gnome

Kstars (one of Linux's truly cool programs)

The rest of KDE's Edutainment suite.