Linux distro with good kde support?

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Hyperblaze

Lifer
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I'm trying to figure out a good distro to place on my main rig.

I already have gentoo on my server, and arch linux on my laptop. Would like to have something different on my desktop.

I would like to be able to update the packages in a style similar to gentoo and arch linux (ie, emerge, and pacman)

I've already tried ubuntu, but found it lacked kde support by default, and when I did enable it, things kept crashing on me.

I do not want to use either Mandrake or Redhat or Fedora Core (I just finished getting rid of Mandrake, can't stand redhat, and Fedore core looks too much like Redhat).

Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance!
 
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KDE in Ubuntu sucks for some reason. They just concentrate on Gnome.

Debian has good support, but they try to support everything. Gentoo probably has, too. Mandrake and Suse are KDE centric OSes. Suse is probably your best bet.
 
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m3rcury

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I use KDE and Ubuntu. No problems. I do a custom install (type "custom" when cd asks you to boot). This installs a BARE system. Then I install X, followed by KDE. Every thing is dandy from there. No more bloat and unused stuff.

Give it a try.
 
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To me SuSE KDE is the most polish, follow quickly behind is Mandrake, and Fedora. Mepis KDE layout were logical, but I had to edit the XF86Config-4 file to get the resolution & refresh rate for my old LG monitor.
 
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Lifer
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Originally posted by: OffTopic

To me SuSE KDE is the most polish, follow quickly behind is Mandrake, and Fedora. Mepis KDE layout were logical, but I had to edit the XF86Config-4 file to get the resolution & refresh rate for my old LG monitor.
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Maybe you missed the part....that I am not looking for polish.

I just got RID of mandrake because it was too boring to use. (My idea of fun is vi config files to get things to work!)

If you had to edit the config file for Mepis, it's on my list to try out!

 
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Originally posted by: Jero
Originally posted by: OffTopic

To me SuSE KDE is the most polish, follow quickly behind is Mandrake, and Fedora. Mepis KDE layout were logical, but I had to edit the XF86Config-4 file to get the resolution & refresh rate for my old LG monitor.
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Maybe you missed the part....that I am not looking for polish.

I just got RID of mandrake because it was too boring to use. (My idea of fun is vi config files to get things to work!)

If you had to edit the config file for Mepis, it's on my list to try out!
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In that case you got the 2 perfect distros. I haven't ry Gentoo, and I haven't touch slack for years, however my brief experience with Arch was a positive one. Maybe BSD is the way to go if you want to try something different.
 
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Originally posted by: wheels
whats the difference between kde and gnome?
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They are two different desktop environments with run on the x-server.

The main difference I am aware of is the User Interface. While KDE has a user interface a bit like windows (except much better) gnome has a user interface which is much more simple in nature. I'll take screen shots to show you.
 
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Originally posted by: wheels
whats the difference between kde and gnome?
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Gnome has more streamlined UIs (but tends to get features slower), and is less like Windows, but KDE has the kitchen sink thrown in--dirty dishes and all.

As to the OP: Xandros has a little-F free download of version 3, and is Debian-based.
 
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Sunner

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I'm a Debian/KDE user and I have no complaints.
The default desktop is pretty crappy(at least it was when I installed it quite a few versions ago) but since you like tinkering, that's not a problem, right? ;)
 
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Knoppix has excellent KDE support. It's a live CD, but can be installed to a hard drive
 
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