"Gnome or KDE is chiefly about personal preference." I have read in
places that KDE is less stable than Gnome. BUT is there any truth in
this? It seems strange to me that Canonical seem to push gnome rather
than KDE... but when stability is raised there seems to be little
factual feedback. I have switched to KDE for no reason other than most
of the apps i use happen to be KDE... thus installing Kubuntu saves me
downloading a lot of the extra dependencies for running certain apps
on gnome.