The best KDE 4 distro? [Archive]

Freddy

February 3rd, 2008, 03:11 PM

I believe that it won't be Kubuntu, KDE had never been the strong side of the developers, to put it plainly, Kubuntu is painfully slow in comparison to other distros using KDE.

I myself only use the base system of Ubuntu and the KDE core and build myself my own setup of KDE, that way I can use the glories repository of Ubuntu and have a decent KDE.

Antman

February 3rd, 2008, 06:37 PM

So... shat do you think will be the best KDE 4 distro?

Kubuntu Hardy?
OpenSUSE 11?

IMHO openSUSE will have the best KDE4 version. They seem to always tweak KDE in the best possible way.

mips

February 3rd, 2008, 06:48 PM

I think KDEmod on Arch is great. Hopefully KDEmod4 will follow this trend.

AlanR8

February 3rd, 2008, 07:24 PM

Been running Kubuntu for over a year now and I would NOT describe KDE as slow.....

r4ik

February 3rd, 2008, 07:26 PM

I think opensuse is going to be great but for now with Hardy and a new KDE4 in development i am going to stay where i am.
I do like stable.

Majorix

February 3rd, 2008, 09:39 PM

I think KDEmod on Arch is great. Hopefully KDEmod4 will follow this trend.

Nobody (not even the devs themselves) know for sure if there will be a KDEMod4.

Other than that, I usually like Kubuntu's. They tend to run faster since they are not edited (or only minimally edited). openSUSE is often edited, but looks somewhat nicer in turn. It is a matter of taste, and I tend to prefer speed&responsibility :)

kpkeerthi

February 4th, 2008, 03:32 AM

Nobody (not even the devs themselves) know for sure if there will be a KDEMod4.http://kdemod.ath.cx/bbs/viewtopic.php?id=406

mips

February 4th, 2008, 03:38 AM

http://kdemod.ath.cx/bbs/viewtopic.php?id=406

Thanks for posting that. I'm aware of it but waiting for things to settle a bit before I try it.

Incense

February 4th, 2008, 08:31 AM

Another vote for openSUSE (just upgraded to 4.0.1) , but I'd also have to say that no one really has a true KDE 4 distro at this point. It's just kind of KDE 4 on top of whatever you had before. You don't really have that last layer of polish quite yet. We're going to really have to wait for the next release cycles to hit to see true KDE 4 integration (OpenSUSE 11, Kubuntu 8.04...).

eljoeb

February 4th, 2008, 06:59 PM

Been running Kubuntu for over a year now and I would NOT describe KDE as slow.....

Used Kubuntu for half a year and then switched to Fedora's KDE and then Arch's. Kubuntu felt pretty slow compared to them.

miggols99

February 6th, 2008, 05:17 AM

OpenSUSE has a good KDE4 and it is very simple to install. I'm using Arch Linux with the KDE4 repo, oh and by the way, KDEmod4 is testing at the moment:

http://kdemod.ath.cx/bbs/viewtopic.php?id=406

igknighted

February 6th, 2008, 02:14 PM

Fedora 9 alpha has a KDE4 liveCD now, I tested it a bit last night without installing and it seemed stable and responsive. I'll test the compositing features once I have it installed.

Northsider

February 23rd, 2008, 04:00 PM

KDE runs pretty weel in Kubuntu for me. I haven't tried any other distros though, :-/

Kernel Sanders

February 23rd, 2008, 06:20 PM

I've tried openSUSE and have always found their KDE implimentation to be streets ahead of the competition.

Kubuntu is one of the worst KDE distro's there is.

I still prefer my ubuntu though :KS

-gabe-noob-

February 26th, 2008, 06:22 PM

I havent really used KDE so I can't really say. All that I know is that because I'm really wanting to try KDE4 I'm starting on april 24, the day Kubuntu hardy comes out (to the best of my knowledge) Also is switching from Gnome to KDE as hard as the switch from windows to ubuntu? Or is it relatively easy.

P.S. can I install from the openSUSE livecd?

Erunno

February 26th, 2008, 07:01 PM

P.S. can I install from the openSUSE livecd?

Yes, the live cd is based on openSUSE 10.3 with KDE 4.0.1 packages on top and can be installed directly from the live session. My advice: If you are an early adopter and know what to expect from KDE 4.0 (and what not) then go for it otherwise I'd wait until 4.1.

-gabe-noob-

February 26th, 2008, 07:10 PM

Why is 4 buggy? I was thinking about making a major switch to KDE when Kubuntu 8.04 comes out, but I may just use openSUSE or Debian. Also is themeing as easy in KDE as it is in Gnome, and do compositing effects work on it?

Fri13

February 27th, 2008, 12:54 PM

I would vote for OpenSUSE or Mandriva
Mandriva is in close development with KDE and follows default KDE settings while Kubuntu brakes things so KDE user cannot follow normal documents but need to read Kubuntu users own.

PCLinuxOS is one great distribution with KDE4. So big difference in quality, that i change to KDE4 from KDE3 for now on, thanks to Mandriva.

Changturkey

February 27th, 2008, 02:41 PM

PCLinuxos does not have KDE4...standard anyways.

Dieseler

February 10th, 2009, 01:55 AM

I'll bump this.
Kubuntu is sucking hard for me right now.
Who's got the best kde distro now?

mips

February 10th, 2009, 07:54 AM

Who's got the best kde distro now?

Many people seem to rate openSUSE highly for KDE4. I just use Arch+KDEmod.

Thread is a year old but what the hell....

gjoellee

February 10th, 2009, 09:35 AM

Thread is a year old but what the hell....

Zombie thread! Please don't think about the children, may you please think about the children!?

Vince4Amy

February 10th, 2009, 12:36 PM

OpenSuSE 11.1 is by the far the best Out of the Box KDE 4 experience IMO. Slackware for KDE 3.5.10.

The best way to test Vanilla KDE 4.2 is probably Arch though.

kamitsukai

February 10th, 2009, 07:50 PM

I've only tried kubuntu so far which was dreadfull (who in there right mind dosent have firefox or opera in a default install of a distrobtuion???) all gtk apps look like someone crapped on your screen! I've herd nothing but praise for mandriva and suse but I cant wait for Linux mint KDE4! it's going to be what kubuntu 8.10 should of been!!!

C!oud

February 10th, 2009, 09:17 PM

(who in there right mind dosent have firefox or opera in a default install of a distrobtuion???)

Any sensible distro :P. Seriously though, I'll agree that the overall appearance of OpenSUSE KDE4 is nice but I much prefer the KDE 4 on my Gentoo and NetBSD installs.

joey-elijah

February 11th, 2009, 06:13 PM

C!oud

February 11th, 2009, 06:56 PM

OpenSUSE KDE is luuuuuush and very, very responsive. Certainly more responsive than whenever I've dropped KDE on to Ubuntu.

I'm a customization geek though and just cannot get to grips with how the frak you effectively theme KDE. (Yes kde-look, but they never give instructions! In Gnome it's just drag n' drop. The default KDE themes look like.. well... i won't use the exact word, but rubbish.)

If you mean installing themes, I find it much easier to do in KDE than gnome considering you never even have to open up firefox/opera and go to kde-look.org. Just go to Appearance and click on New Theme.