<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Thanks. I've been using Red Hat and it's derivatives (Fedora, CentOS, etc.) since Red Hat 5 days, but my experience with other distros is pretty limited. I've used apt-get a little, but it's kind of sounding like I should go with Kubuntu right out of the gate.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>That is how I started off. When I was new to Ubuntu I found it helpful to have Gnome isntalled also because it is the default desktop in Ubuntu. That way it will be more straightforward to follow some of the guides and troubleshooting stuff, because the screenshots and settings dialogues will be in Gnome. You can easily add and remove KDE and Gnome in Ubuntu by installing/removing the kubuntu-desktop and ubuntu-desktop packages respectively. <br>