I tried both and at the lab at work where I used Clonezilla from Ubuntu/Gnome to my machines where I use Kubuntu 8.04 (KDE 3.5.9) I still prefer KDE over Gnome. Give it time and 9.04 or 9.10 I will upgrade to KDE4. But my CentOS installs all use KDE 3.5.8 and are very stable so it helps to look at the similar interfaces when troubleshooting. KDE all the way. Brian