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Well, The Intrepid Ibex has been with us for a few days now and the update of my Xubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 went as smoothly as could be expected. As always, the only thing to break was Xorg, this time because the nvidia-glx-new package has gone. A simple install of the new Nvidia drivers package and an execution of nvidia-xconfig and nvidia-settings and we were on our way again.

However, despite the fact that Xubuntu had numerous new features – most of which can be found in other versions of Ubuntu, I have really grown tired of the minimalist look. Having seen KDE 4 in action on another Kubuntu 8.10 installation, I thought that I would migrate. Now they say that this should be as simple as installing the kubuntu-desktop package, but I disagree. What follows is a guide to switching between the ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop and xubuntu-desktop packages (and any others such as Gobuntu). Read more »