I also tried Kubuntu, and it is good. But I prefer Ubuntu, because I don't like the KDE Desktop that much. IMO it is too bloated. Because Kubuntu and Ubuntu share the same package repository, if you install Ubuntu, you could also install KDE later from the package manager.
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