I think its kind of silly to get mad about this, because GNOME is much similar and great for newbies to Linux. GNOME also looks great, and I personally prefer GNOME when I am working on a Linux Desktop.

But whats silly is Ubuntu is just a distribution of Linux, its open source and its really easy to play around with. There is no doubt in my mind that if you really want KDE 4 on a Ubuntu machine then you should be able to find some hacker who will show you how to do it (if you don't already know how).

As pty said, KDE 4 will be brand new when 8.04 comes out. It is not going to be a well known and tested platform yet. That said, KDE 4 has a number of great improvements over KDE 3.5, and I'm sure it will be well accepted by the open source community as a whole and be used on Kubuntu on the next release.

There seems to be a masive amount of rubbish all over the web over the last few days about this subject. The first and most important question I feel that needs to be asked is when GNOME completly rewrites itself will Ubuntu support the first release of GNOME 3.0 (or what ever it becomes) in a LTS version?? Exactly, I suspect not.

As usual a story like this is taken by people who have very little idea of what they are taking about and blow it out of all proportions. Kubuntu may only have 35% of Ubuntu downloads but it has been in production for a short time then Ubuntu. KDE 4.0 is the first release of a brand new desktop enviornment. If I was leading Ubuntu I wouldn't make Kubuntu LTS for the very reasons given above. KDE 3.5 will be a distant memory in three years time where as KDE 4.0 has been stated by the KDE team to be a developers release. Over the next year they plan to release a number of minor revisions that will take KDE 4 to the next level, the level at which it would be suitable for a LTS version of Kubuntu.

However, in three years time I'm sure no one will notice that many differences between Gnome 2.20 and the version available then.

Good commentary about the GNOME getting killed off KDE. I enjoyed reading it.
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GNOME also looks great, and I personally prefer GNOME when I am working on a Linux Desktop.
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