Desktops can be installed on any ubuntu release. you could install xfce on kubuntu, or kde on base ubuntu. And what DE/WM you are using doesn’t matter in a quite a few scenarios, so it’s not worth bringing up in the same way that I don’t mention “Im using cachyOS niri wm”
I personally preferred xubuntu over kubuntu back in my *ubuntu days. etc etc. there are a lot of spins of ubuntu and when the only differentiator is DE (which you can also just install on base ubuntu), it’s easier to just talk about them all as a single overaching entity/family … ubuntu.
Talking about kubuntu inherently requires talking about KDE and ubuntu both, so people just skip the KDE discussion.
“Too many distro options” is already a complaint of a lot of non-linux users, so specifying every last spin can just drive people away.
Desktops can be installed on any ubuntu release. you could install xfce on kubuntu, or kde on base ubuntu. And what DE/WM you are using doesn’t matter in a quite a few scenarios, so it’s not worth bringing up in the same way that I don’t mention “Im using cachyOS niri wm”
I personally preferred xubuntu over kubuntu back in my *ubuntu days. etc etc. there are a lot of spins of ubuntu and when the only differentiator is DE (which you can also just install on base ubuntu), it’s easier to just talk about them all as a single overaching entity/family … ubuntu.
Talking about kubuntu inherently requires talking about KDE and ubuntu both, so people just skip the KDE discussion.
“Too many distro options” is already a complaint of a lot of non-linux users, so specifying every last spin can just drive people away.