A decent portion of the KDE desktop can be installed without installing its applications, although this makes little sense since GTK+ applications don't really look right in KDE. You should be able to do this by using the command
sudo apt-get install kdm kde-base
P.S. The version of KDE in the 8.10 (Intrepid) repository is very old and known to have a lot of bugs fixed in later versions. Unless you have a very good reason not to, you should upgrade to a later relase.
No. After download and burn the Ubuntu 10.10 install disk, you can either TRY Ubuntu without affecting your Windows at all, or INSTALL Ubuntu to have them both in your PC. However, to install Ubuntu, you need to be careful. Make sure not to install Ubuntu to the Windows drive. That is all.
Click the install as partition when installing Ubuntu.
you computer will be slower than before you install ubuntu....
Try installing it with Wine.
Unless you choose to install Ubuntu over another operating system during installation, Ubuntu will not delete anything from the other OS.
You have to install both operating systems to get a 'dual boot' system. I would suggest installing vista first, then installing ubuntu. Doing it the other way around will mean that the ubuntu installation will not be recognized after you install Vista, so do the Vista install first.The Ubuntu Grub loader will be able to recognize the Vista partition and should present you with a menu when you boot the machine as to which operating system you want to use.The easiest approach to this would be to install Vista on one partition and ubuntu on a different partition of your hard drive.
No guarantee can ever be given that you will not have problems, for anything. As long as your hard drive is in working order and you partition the drive correctly, ubuntu shouldn't have any problems installing.
You can install Ubuntu easily on most PCs using their CD.
Ubuntu cannot harm your computer's hardware at all. If you dont have much experience with installing operating systems, and try to install ubuntu, there's a possibility that you can overwrite all the data that is currently on the hard drive. However, if you are installing Ubuntu on a blank hard drive, then there is no harm that can be done by doing so. Ubuntu is a very useful linux-based operating system.
Yes absolutely one can install Ubuntu or any other OS without internet connection. Of course you have to have the Ubuntu .iso image file handy. You can install it using USB stick with universal USB installer or from the hard disk you have downloaded to. But the latest updates won't be installed without internet.
No. It is entirely possible to install and run Ubuntu on a computer without ever having run Windows on it.
Yes. Download a .deb file, and double click to install.