Brian, my fellow Linux buddy at work, shot me over an email from his iPhone this morning with a photo attached. He installed KDE4 on his Ubuntu 8.10 netbook, an Acer Aspire One that I have been jealous over for the last few months. The device is cool as hell as is, but now he's got it dual booting between XP and Ubuntu 8.10 and he's got Gnome and KDE as options.
It is clear that the KDE4 desktop environment is much prettier than the 'poop' colored Ubuntu, as I have seen it referred to across the web. The load screen changed to a pretty blue "Kubuntu" graphic instead of the orange Ubuntu one and following that, the loader has some cool fade-in effects as it comes up. Overall it's got a very clean OSX-ish gloss to it. It's a bit different to get used to KDE4 after having used GNOME for so long, but the prettiness of it outweighs the learning curve.
I told Brian that the last thing he needs to do on this netbook in order to become king of nerds, is to install OSX on the netbook, too. If he does it, I'll let you know....in fact, if he does it, I'll video tape him triple booting the thing and stick it up on YouTube.
