I don't think there's that much to choose between them, myself. However, I'm on Kubuntu, because there are a couple of applications that are KDE-specific (although you can install the KDE libaries with Gnome, it doesn't quite work so nicely) - Ktorrent (a bittorrent client like utorrent) and Amarok, which is a very nice music player (although there is a Gnome port of it called "Exhaile").
I don't know about the equivalence of "gnome/mac", "kde/windows" - as a Windows user, I was quite happy with Gnome, and as far as I can tell, the actual drag-and-drop behaviour and mouse commands are pretty similar. It is fairly intuitive to use, although finding where some of the system stuff is hidden can be a bit confusing, and where pluggable media ends up. For the record, it's all mounted under /media these days.
One other thing - Ubuntu is good to install (it works fine with my Toshiba laptop), but some people have had problems with the current release, "Feisty Fawn". It has seemed a bit more buggy than the others. Try running the Live CD first (you get a Live CD if you order the disks online), and if all seems well, proceed with the install. If something seems not quite right, you might want to wait till the next release, "Gutsy Gibbon", which appears more stable for more people in beta (the final release is due mid-October).
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Date: 2007-09-17 09:38 am (UTC)I don't know about the equivalence of "gnome/mac", "kde/windows" - as a Windows user, I was quite happy with Gnome, and as far as I can tell, the actual drag-and-drop behaviour and mouse commands are pretty similar. It is fairly intuitive to use, although finding where some of the system stuff is hidden can be a bit confusing, and where pluggable media ends up. For the record, it's all mounted under /media these days.
One other thing - Ubuntu is good to install (it works fine with my Toshiba laptop), but some people have had problems with the current release, "Feisty Fawn". It has seemed a bit more buggy than the others. Try running the Live CD first (you get a Live CD if you order the disks online), and if all seems well, proceed with the install. If something seems not quite right, you might want to wait till the next release, "Gutsy Gibbon", which appears more stable for more people in beta (the final release is due mid-October).