Yeah.. Virtual Machine is usually better idea. I am surprised that the Kubuntu Installer was able to successfully resize a ntfs partition without erasing it.. cool.

Also your command is:

apt-get install synaptic

Kubuntu is good.. it's just Ubuntu with KDE. It will look similar to Penguinbait's KDE. For those infactuated with XFCE - there is an Xubuntu distro. Don't think anyone has made a Gnome for the Tablet for you guys to test yet.. probably would run in debian chroot but I bet that's slow.

Another option is to just start Kubuntu directly from the CD and play with a full live OS without even touching your HDD (no risk to your winblows box).. that allows people to "try before they buy" so to speak (not literally buy, obviously). This way you can also try both Ubuntu and Kubuntu to see which Window Manager you like..