Best KDE based distro?

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Hi,

Never really used KDe before, but my old man is converting from XP. I have decided to start him on off on a KDE nased distro mainly because its layout is similar to XP, which he is used to.

I have downloaded and played around with opensuse 11.1 KDE version, I choice this as google said Suse devs, have KDE as priority number 1, with gnome second.

Opensuse seems nice and stable, but is there anyother distro worth trying?

I'm after large repo's, "it just works" kinda distro with no CLI messing, I like messing with CLI but my dad aint gonna get it, so nice GUI baby!!!

Tried Kubuntu last year and it was buggy, so not keen to try that, and ubuntu devs concentrate on gnome more than kde, I think anyway.

Stick with opensuse? or am I missing a killer distro out there??
 
OpenSuse is my favourite :)
It may be worth giving Kubuntu another shot (just use a Live CD or something).
 
Yeah opensuse is a real winner (reminds me to go download it myself soonish)

Feteling with a more customisable distro and making it into a kde based one is an option, ie arch it up into kde also would work (what ever your confortable with setting up).

My only other suggestion is Mandriva Linux but i havnt gotten round to trying that one out yet...
 
pingwing said:
Yeah opensuse is a real winner (reminds me to go download it myself soonish)

Feteling with a more customisable distro and making it into a kde based one is an option, ie arch it up into kde also would work (what ever your confortable with setting up).

My only other suggestion is Mandriva Linux but i havnt gotten round to trying that one out yet...
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I play with arch on my desktop but i dont wanna do that to my dads, mainly cos it takes ages to setup, where as opensuse is already done.

I tried Kubuntu and it was buggy & I dont wanna have to faff around with it.

Opensuse seems a safe bet, ill stick with it!


EDIT: hhmmm dunno mandriva was good :p
oh yeh I tried mandriva a few weeks ago actually. It was good but think opensuse edges it :p
 
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Smit said:
I haven't used it for a while but I believe you can use a different package manager now and not need YAST :)
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interesting. was playing with suse last night in VB. YAST is slow, a lot slower than pacman & even synaptic....

will investigate

EDIT: Just read that YUM can be used. Is yum alright? not fiddled with Fedora much tbh
 
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If you are comfortable with the command line in openSuse then you can use zypper which should in theory at least be much faster than YAST but it will require you to know what you are doing of course
 
Kubuntu has come a long way recently. It's true that Ubuntu (in all flavours) is primarily a Gnome distro but they now have dedicated people on the KDE release and most of the major new features make it into the Kubuntu release these days.
 
Oxy said:
can u find me the minimum install cd for "sid" the debian website is such a mess I can't even find the iso :/

Dunno if i can be bothered with debian, its seriously frustrating.
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I would go for lenny (5.0, recently gone "stable"), just for KDE 3.5.

If you want KDE4 go for "squeeze" (what will become 6), I think it's passed the freeze, it's in "testing".

Sid will always be "unstable".

Edit: And no, I can't find the squeeze netinstall image, theoretically there is a new one each week.
 
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Been looking various KDE setups today and gotta say, think I prefer KDE 4.2

How do I find a netinstall of squeeze? I kind find it for the life of me on the debian site.

Can someone link me.
 
Oxy said:
can u find me the minimum install cd for "sid" the debian website is such a mess I can't even find the iso :/

Dunno if i can be bothered with debian, its seriously frustrating.
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are you serious?

1. Debian.org
2. CD images (from the links at the left hand side
3. Minimal install CD
4. profit!!
 
whitecrook said:
are you serious?

1. Debian.org
2. CD images (from the links at the left hand side
3. Minimal install CD
4. profit!!
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ITs not very well explained how the naming works. Is "lenny" just a repo? or is it a version of debian? I understood it was a distro, i.e. Squeeze is Debian 6 and sid is there bleeding edge sort of like debian 7.

Which is it? Its confusing.

Think I'm gonna stick with Arch linux and build it myself. I just find that Arch just makes sense to me, that and there wiki pages are amazing :p
 
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