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Although KDE has historically had more financial backing and been a stable graphic environment when compared to the often buggy Gnome, more recently Gnome, thus Ubuntu has underwent a great deal of development. Both desktop environments are in a good place now developmentally so the final choice is more or less preference. Purest geeks seem to have always preferred Gnome as they believe that KDE is too "corporate," whatever that means. Although KDE has historically had more financial backing and been a stable graphic environment when compared to the often buggy Gnome, more recently Gnome, thus Ubuntu has underwent a great deal of development. Both desktop environments are in a good place now developmentally so the final choice is more or less preference. Purest geeks seem to have always preferred Gnome as they believe that KDE is too "corporate," whatever that means.'''IMPORTANT TIP TO USING THIS GUIDE''': Information is divided "Ubuntu" and "Kubuntu" however please understand that most of the information is completely applicable to both, or most Ubuntu flavors including [[Xubuntu]] and [[MythTV]]. In some cases information is partially applicable. In few cases, information is specific to the distribution heading. Remember, all these Ubuntus are [[Debian Linux]] based. ''A warning about using Ubuntu based Linux distributions: The folks over at Ubuntu think they know better than the original architects of Linux. Consequently in newer releases of Ubuntu many configuration standards, file locations, and startup scripts no longer work correctly, in that if you don't use the graphical configuration tool in Unity to make changes then you will have problems. This is a very unfortunate Microsoft type mentality that is creeping into Ubuntu and may ultimately destroy the integrity of the distribution. As a workstation operating system Ubuntu is easy to use. As a server operating system I would highly discourage the use of Ubuntu or any of the Ubuntu derivatives.'' ''An alternative to Ubuntu and that we highly recommend now (as of 2017) is [[Mint Linux]]. Although Mint is based on Ubuntu, it has a more user friendly desktop manager, better graphics card support for Nvidia (even though in theory this should be no different than Ubuntu, it is different), and greater stability among software. Even Wine was easier to configure and use in Mint.'' ''2020: Even more reason to avoid Ubuntu, Snapcraft! Read [[Ubuntu Criticisms]] and learn more about [[Snapcraft]] before installing Ubuntu on your system.'' '''IMPORTANT TIP TO USING THIS GUIDE''': Information is divided "Ubuntu" and "Kubuntu" however please understand that most of the information is completely applicable to both, or most Ubuntu flavors including [[Xubuntu]] and [[Mythbuntu]]. In some cases information is partially applicable. In few cases, information is specific to the distribution heading. Remember, all of these Ubuntus are [[Debian Linux]] based, including Ubuntu derivatives such as [[Mint Linux]].