No, kubuntu is (or was) a thing. You should be able to strip your gui
(desktop manager) out, leaving you at a terminal prompt. Then you should be
able to install KDE.

Thanks,
Alexander

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On Tue, Mar 22, 2022, 16:44 AZ Pete via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> All,
>
> I have been using Ubuntu as one of my desktops for a while, but have
> always been irritated by how difficult it is to do customize things.
> I was thinking of trying KDE, but do I have to re-install a new Kubuntu
> O/S to have KDE or is there a way to install the KDE desktop on my Ubuntu
> 20.04 (Gnome) desktop?
>
> Thanks
> Peter
>
>
> On 3/22/2022 3:44 PM, Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>
> On 2022-03-22 15:23, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>
> In the past there has been some discussion about which is better
> GNOME or KDE?  I like Mint and I see it offers MATE (a fork of GNOME
> 2) or Cinnamon (a fork of GNOME 3).
> Does it matter?
>
>
> KDE is very, very customizable.  GNOME 3 is ... not.  There has been a
> remarkable amount of continuity in how KDE's applications have behaved (and
> looked, if you want) since KDE 2.  And no, not every application starts
> with a K these days.  Default file manager is dolphin not konqueror,
> default image viewer is gwenview not kview, default screenshot taker is
> spectacle not kscreenshot.  So I prefer KDE but EPID and YMMV.
>
>
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