Out of sheer whimsy, I booted up my Ubuntu laptop. Just to toy around with it. I was immediately disappointed with my Gnome desktop. It looked so…old. I appreciate all the work that the Ubuntu team put into making the applications menu easy to use too, but it just doesn’t cut it anymore. Not since I used the new KDE4 launcher. Its 2 clicks at most to get what I want, like open Konsole or Konqueror. You just click the KDE icon, type what you want, and *bam* its there. For Gnome, you need to remember where it is amongst the menus.

I’m sure the Gnome devs are working on some fantastic new interface for the launcher, but for now I’m sticking with KDE. Instead of updating my laptop to the latest Ubuntu release, I’m just downloading a fresh iso of the Kubuntu intrepid alpha, which comes with KDE4.