Anyone know any good kde distros besides kubuntu?

[g2g591]

I'd like to try something new, and I don't really care for gnome too much. So what distros do you use/like that use kde? (don't say pclinuxos, I don't like the name, and what I've heard doesn't sound to good)

[Bachstelze]

All the good distros use KDE :) If you want to stay Linux, I'd say Debian, Gentoo, Arch or Slackware - you can also install a nice KDE in Ubuntu without all the Kubuntu stuff. Or you could also go BSD ;)

[igknighted]

Pardus! I run it on my laptop and love it. The one thing I don't like is that there isn't a huge package selection, but as long as you don't need anything outrageous it shouldn't be an issue.

Mandriva is also a very good distro. Check out easyurpmi (google it, i don't have the link) for configuring your repos too.

Those are probably the best 2 KDE distros you don't hear much about (anymore, in the case of Mandriva).

[karellen]

opensuse and linux mint, I found them to have the best kde out there

[kulturloseramerikaner]

There's a bit of trash talking going on here about PCLinuxOS but I'd say give it a try; I've been running that on my lappy for a while and dig it.

[danny joe ritchie]

Opensuse is my favorite,nobody does KDE like Suse!

[g2g591]

I think for now, im gonna try fedora with kde, and debian.

[dca]

+1 on openSuSE's KDE... The polish is incredible....

[fistfullofroses]

GoboLinux, Slackware, SLACKWARE, SLACKWARE

[tuxcantfly]

Sabayon Linux. The default DVD install is a tad bit bloated for my taste, but you can always deselect components or use the CD, and it comes with all the latest and greatest software (compiz-fusion out of the box, all the bleeding-edge software you'll ever need available through portage).

[darrelljon]

I like Knoppix (which can be installed but it isn't recommended), KanotiX and Tmxxine.

[g2g591]

update: I tried both fedora 7 and debian (both with kde of course) and their installers arn't very friendly to other oses, they both didn't detect either my kubuntu or my windows install, and of course left me no clear way to stick with my own grub menu. anyway, that aside, debians default frontend to apt (kpackage) is horrible, it insists on showing the repos like a filesystem tree and I hate it, and I didn't like fedoras package management either.
I think in a few days I may or may not try Arch

[Bachstelze]

KPackage is by no means "Debian's frontend to Apt". It is KDE's package management tool. And if you don't like it, feel free to install Synaptic.

[j.miller565]

Either OpenSuSE, Mandriva or Sabayon 3.4

[DreamcastJack]

PCLinuxOS, seriously, I decided to try Kubuntu recently so I installed it over PCLOS, and wow what a mistake, PCLOS is so much smoother it seems, fast and just nice all around and a bit easier to set everything up like you want it. and for some reason I couldnt get UT04 demo to install w/ Kubuntu. I reinstalled PCLOS the next day and i'll never do that again, PCLOS will probably stay my Desktop OS while Ubuntu will stay on my Laptop.

[Cochise]

simplymepis is a pretty good kde distro similar to ubuntu and its debian based so it uses apt.

[Erunno]

As an ardent openSUSE user I'll naturally recommend it to you. It's a very user friendly distribution. Yast is an incredible configuration tool which should make encounters with the CLI a rarity, it has a very polished looking KDE implementation, integrated beagle support, it's very stable and has a wide range of repositories with newest versions of many commonly used applications (Firefox, OpenOffice, KDE, wine, etc.) albeit officially unsupported.

The package management in 10.2 is problematic though as the yast module needs a long time to start (about 1 minute on my PC) and the boot time is longer than on Kubuntu but on the other hand the applications seem to start faster on openSUSE (which in my opinion makes a far greater difference).

[tdrusk]

Yoper is supposed to be really fast. I am downloading it now to put on my experimental computer.

[kazuya]

there too many:
(1)mepis - this is the best kde based distro for me.
(2)vector linux
(3)pclinuxos2007 - everything works and wonderful control center {Mandriva-based}
(4)DesktopBSD - very fun, beautiful BSD dased OS - not a distro per say.
(5)sabayon - alot of items., a tart too big but for good reason
(6)sidux / kanotix
(7)slackware - getting way easier
(8)Fedora Core 7 / Foresight - okay ; Foresight may skew to top 3 soon.
(9)arch linux - little challenging

(* 0r 4)Opensuse - A little reluctant to use this one. It was nice though. It is a little slow and bloated, but looks polished and upon being used enough, one may come to tolerate or even love it.

[Erunno]

(* 0r 4)Opensuse - A little reluctant to use this one. It was nice though. It is a little slow and bloated, but looks polished and upon being used enough, one may come to tolerate or even love it.

What do you mean by bloated? openSUSE aims to be a fully featured Linux distribution and installs, like K/Ubuntu, many applications associated with common desktop usage in the default package selection. Unlike K/Ubuntu though openSUSE lets you decide which applications to install during the installation procedure. You can strip it to a pretty barebone system. openSUSE is as "fat" or "slim" as you want it to be and with 10.3 they're going to break up packages even more to allow a more fine-grained system.

And for all claims I read about openSUSE being slow it turned out to be much more responsive than Kubuntu in my subjective experience.

[ron999]

Yoper is supposed to be really fast. I am downloading it now to put on my experimental computer.

Hi
I tried Yoper 3.0 in June this year.
The LiveCD ran extremely well but I couldn't get the Installation disc to install. I tried the DVD too.
I got some help from the Yoper forum - but not much. It's a very quiet forum.
Since then I've installed several other distros without much trouble.
So I don't know whether there's something wrong with Yoper - or maybe it was me.
Good luck with Yoper, please let us know how you get on.
8)

[g2g591]

I'm trying the kde flavor of openSUSE, and so far I like it, it's installer detected Ubuntu unlike debian and fedora, and everything seems to be fine. One of the reasons I like opensuse is weekly builds of kde4 (I keep getting an error when I try to build on kubuntu). I think ill triboot now (vista (which runs very slow) Kubuntu (still as default) and Opensuse.

[jbaerbock]

PCLos is nice but is a bloated more annoying and les functional version of Mandriva. Mandriva is nice and works well, and has all the nice tools PCLinuxOS 2007 has. PcLos is a ripoff of mandriva basically. I would say give Mandriva a try if you like rpm. If you like .deb then I would recommend Linux Mint (though they are rather similar to Kubuntu).

[pelle.k]

PCLos is nice but is a bloated more annoying and les functional version of Mandriva. Mandriva is nice and works well, and has all the nice tools PCLinuxOS 2007 has. PcLos is a ripoff of mandriva basically.
burn! hehe. oh boy, are you gonna get it for this comment... :D
You kids today... all you do is feed trolls and flame each other. ;)

[YoungGods]

Arch (http://www.archlinux.org/) + kdemod (http://kdemod.ath.cx/) =D>

[.aku]

Pardus (http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng) !

[ffi]

PCLos is nice but is a bloated more annoying and les functional version of Mandriva. Mandriva is nice and works well, and has all the nice tools PCLinuxOS 2007 has. PcLos is a ripoff of mandriva basically. I would say give Mandriva a try if you like rpm. If you like .deb then I would recommend Linux Mint (though they are rather similar to Kubuntu).

True, if you prefer the KDE version of PCLOS you can install it on Mandriva too (they make a mandriva version too). Regarding rpm vs deb, it really doesnt matter, I have had far more depency probs with apt than with urpm*(mandriva's package manager) or my prefered package-manager SMART