I Don't really know the difference between KDE And Gnome , as I understand it there are just different desktops running on top of the linux kernerl ??
I have used ubuntu quite a lot on different machines. However I managed to mess up the install on my laptop and it wouldnt boot.
I also updated to 11.04 at it froze at the end and left me with a non booting linux install.
I originally went for Ubuntu because I was led to believe it was the easiest and most user friendly version.
Have the other distros caught up.
Is red hat, yellow dog etc as easy to install, update and add appliactions etc, as windows ?