back to KDE after so long

[FatRakoon]

When KDE 4 came out, I lost my love for it... dont have a clue as to wtf is going on with the desktop icons, but I moved to gnome and for the most part, I have been very happy with it.

However, since gnome went with this unity junk, I have lost my love for gnome too... Thankfully, MiNT has MATE and now I find that my personal favourite Sabayon also has mate. this is good news to me.

Now, with me running Mint 14 MATE, I then had a piddle about with KDE and after some mesing about, I found that i I use the FOLDER VIEW for the desktop, the Icons are back to normal, and snap to a grid, and this is exactly how I like it.

I then installed Mint KDE but there was a couple of niggles ( Minor but something that I never suffered with the previlous KDE install through mint ) and then I tried the new Sabayon 11 KDE and thats 100% perfect for me.
Slight issue in that its ben updating for over 4 hours now, and I dont know why its so slow, but im not overly concerned just yet.

The end result though is that I seem to be back on KDE now, and back on my baby Sabayon too, so for a change... Im happy with Linux again.

 

[FatRakoon]

never tried sabyon how does it compare to debian?

Wow, thats like asking me to compare a car and a bike.

Maybe a fairer comparison would be comparing the latest brand new car with an old, but ultra reliable one. I find them both shockingly stable for me, but debian losesout in that the overall feel is bit windows 98 or just rough and sabayon just feels higher class, more slicker. Silly I know, but thats how I feel.

the excessive recompiling just seems a waste of time to me, for <5% performance increases, but each to there own, thats the beauty of linux

Never noticed it with Sabayon, but I know what you mean.

i run Mate atm, it keeps folder position and size.
visually i prefer KDE, it also has better multiscreen support.

I have been with Mate a fair while myself and I do love it, but yes, KDE is definitely visually better, but its also those little apps that make me giggle... Chucking a "K" in front of anything suddenly makes it a KDE app... Hilarious!... Im off for a kslash now.

 

[FatRakoon]

The stock KDE skin isn't exacty the nicest looking but there are some excellent skins for it.

Agreed. Im using a kind of mix on my Laptop, and Im buggered if I can work out what I did to get it that way but thats the beauty of it all... Perhaps however the fact that there is so much customisability and the features are accessed in different ways, that maybe its also a down side to it too!

 

[FatRakoon]

Why change distribution? Why not simply install kde?

That right there.

If however you do also want to try a different distro, then sure, why not?

Mint is a great distro for it.