I know KDE3.5 will apply itself properly to a clean system (i.e. one without KDE installed already). I don't know if Gnome will. My recommendation would be to install the Gnome CD, then install KDE3 on top of that. Tim On Fri, October 30, 2009 5:36 am, Leonardo Rolla wrote: > Hi everyone, > > If I'm doing a brand new installation, and I will use Gnome in the end, > but > with some KDE applications, what is best? > > Install the ISO for Kubuntu 9.10 + KDE 3.5 and then install Gnome Desktop > > or > > Install official Ubuntu release and follow > http://apt.pearsoncomputing.net/install.html > > ? > > Thanks in advance > > :-) >