fresh install "best practises"?

[user1]

> 
>    anyway, you get the idea.  i'm not talking about what you read in...


I install ubuntu lucid 10.04 using alternate cd.

Then I come to gnome and wait a little and then a window comes asking you 
to install proprietary drivers for my nvidia graphics card and driver for 
my broadcom 43 wireless system, and I install that using the windows 
dialog.

Then I install following packages using synaptic:

dolphin - kde-desktop - kde-standard - kdebase - kdeadmin - kde-full - 
leafpad - yakuake - kubuntu-restricted-extras - scrot - gimp - amsn - 
cheese - gnome-alsamixer - encfs - filelight - pan - gnumeric - pinfo - 
gnupg2 - lynx - mplayer - smplayer - vlc - gxine - audacity - w32codecs - 
non-free-codecs - mencoder - googleearth - kgpg - mplayerthumbs - 
ffmpegthumbnailer - kallery - webmagick.

Then I use https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 chapter 12.1 to remove 
grub2 and install grub (old grub).

If you have only one Operating system you can keep grub2.

Then I log in to kde and use kde mainly, I only use gnome for certain 
setups sometimes.

Then I do:

K (lower left corner menu) - System Settings - Appearance - Style - oxygen

Colors - "current"

Windows - "Ozon"

Then I do:

K - Advanced - Dekstop Theme Details - choose desktop theme "Aya"

Then I do:

K menu and open "Software Update" and then I do an update.

Hope this might give a small clue :-)