Hey Sup Forums I recently switched to Linux. My distro of choice was Xubuntu...

Hey Sup Forums I recently switched to Linux. My distro of choice was Xubuntu, because other distros didn't play well with my hardware, and XFCE was better than GNOME. Is there any way I can sit on Xubuntu and convert to KDE?

If xubuntu works for you stay with it.

You can but you shouldn't because Ubuntu is not a good distro for KDE.

why would you do that when xfce is literally perfection. Kde is also slow.

I see. Thanks.
With all the XFCE hate on this board, I thought of giving KDE a shot.

sudo apt install kubuntu-desktop
That should do the trick, assuming I've got it memorized right

Ubuntu is fine for it. The devs of KDE created KDE Neon, which is based on Ubuntu.

I see. What if I have to revert?

Use KDE Neon if you want an Ubuntu base

Ubuntu, xubuntu and kubuntu are the same distro. The main difference is the default package selection.

Just apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

get the debian net installer and select xfce and kde on the installer. Ubuntu is botnet

Theres no XFCE hate.
Just Gnome hate.

apt install kubuntu-desktop

you can just install plasma desktop but you will have redundant applications for the same purpose. (kde applications based on Qt and xfce applications based on GTK).
you'll have to clan that up a bit.

you can switch back and forth each time you login.

Does anyone else here have a fetish for girls pooping on themselves?

You can easily install KDE stuff, and even DM (will need some Arch Wiki reading to figure out how to switch them), like regular packages, BUT - try it in VM first. Cleaning out KDE garbage is PAAAAAIN.
Just stick with XFCE, nobody hates it, a lot of people actually use it, because it just werks.

>With all the XFCE hate on this board, I thought of giving KDE a shot.

>getting advice from the technology version of Sup Forums

yes, you install the kubuntu-desktop package and synaptic, if you can log to kde properly and dont want xfce anymore you remove everything xfce related in synaptic (it has its own tab)
if you need to switch again ,just reinstall the xubuntu-desktop and xubuntu-default-settings packages.

>and synaptic
WHYYYY
It's not 2006, user, you don't need it anymore, let it die, apt can do anything you need

>Ubuntu is fine for it.
No it isn't. the Plasma and Qt binaries are not paired properly in the Ubuntu repos. i.e. they will push a Plasma version out and hold back the Qt libraries. This causes a shitton of issues in KDE/Plasma (such as crashing).

KDE Neon is using a different repository than standard Ubuntu. Stop spreading shit you don't know about.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

sure, but seeing how OP cant into installing other DEs from just googling, removing everything xfce related is easier with synaptic because you have a whole xfce deskto enviroment tab that you can safely remove everything from.