Converting to Ubuntu

[Bruce Marshall]

On Sunday 21 June 2009, David A. Bandel wrote:
> Personally, I've found both to be a real PITA and just too heavy.  I
> looked around and found LXDE that seems to be both light and easy for
> most users.  It also includes the little touches users seem to need to
> automagically mount, use, and unmount devices (pcmanfm).
>
> So I no longer recommend either KDE or Gnome, but LXDE.  Based on
> openbox, so uses obconf, but apart from that, it's pretty nice.

And I usually load up KDE on kubuntu and then add in XFCE.   Then I run XFCE 
with all of the normal KDE apps.  Works well and is very similar to running 
KDE 3.5.