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Hey dudes! I'm posting this from Kubuntu Linux! I don't know why I've always wanted to try Linux, but now my itch is somewhat satisfied. It took way too many tries to install Firefox. Downloading it directly from Mozilla's website was Epic Fail, and trying to use Kubuntu's installer (Adept installer) was also Epic Fail. I tried to search for "

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[katskeep]

That's frustrating. Not surprising, though - wireless always seems to be the one thing that never really works under Linux, probably because laptop drivers are such a disaster. I remember two of my super-nerdy friends spent 3 weeks in 2005 trying to get wireless running using SUSE and it never actually worked.

Gnome and KDE are desktop environments. Linux nerds would argue for hours that this is an understatement, but as far as I'm concerned all I (or you) need to know is that KDE looks like this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/KDE_4.png
And Gnome looks like this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/02/Gnome-2.24.png
They come with different software installed by default and my experience is that most people prefer whichever one they used first. The only reason there are two (there are actually others, like Xfce) at all is because they had a philosophical disagreement in 1997, and when the source of the disagreement went away in 1998, they just kept going (this is on the Gnome wiki). Linux people are nuts ;)