Hi
a little while ago I decided to start using kubuntu and configured my laptop for dual booting. At the time I did not seriously consider the issue of partitions, however now that I'm doing some kde development and have two separate accounts (one personal and one for development) this issue seems to be quite important. Recently I decided to reinstall kubuntu afresh. So while keeping the dual boot I intend to separate the root from the /home dirs. My question follows: since I want to do kde development, would this set up be more beneficial then having everything in root?

you never want everything in root, it's bad practice because of updating the distro, switching to another distro, doing a fresh install of your current distro or wishing to have multiple distros installed but use the same /home.

Thanks for the reply.
I actually have arnd 100GBs available and was going to split this for swap, root and home.