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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