Anyone with experience using a Linux distro with KDE 4?
anonymous
1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Anyone with experience using a Linux distro with KDE 4?
Six answers:
ʄaçade
2010-02-13 00:16:53 UTC
kdebase-4.2.4-2.fc9.i386
The only thing I can tell you is I am running KDE 4.2 under Fedora 9. I have been running this version for several months, perhaps a year. I see no instability here.
John
2010-02-20 08:53:14 UTC
I had used kubuntu for quite some time. It's easy to install and it's almost the same as ubuntu but comes with KDE instead of Gnome.
I did notice that KDE is quite a bit more system intensive, but I was running it on a laptop (Dell D600 1GHz CPU with 1Gig of RAM). It was very usable and very pretty to look at. KDE 4 was very stable an I never had any issues with it.
Rickie
2010-02-19 18:04:09 UTC
You are right that when it was first released KDE had severe and uncappetable stability probs especially if you had NVIDIA cards and the company was - in our opinion - DISGUSTINGLY slow in introducing correct drivers but these probs have been solved now.
KDE is real fun and UNLIKE GNOME which is nice too really introduce you to a TOTALLY new and fun world have an open mind and experiment with the brand new plasma technology and amazing way KDE deals with virtual desktops a true revolution.
In our company we run linux with both KDE and GNOME but GNOME is really for ppl who are used to Windows XP easy to use but too conventional.
Needless to say as u pointed out u need a reasonably powerful graphics card to enable nice effects
RICK
anonymous
2016-12-12 15:56:26 UTC
For the main suitable adventure as a guy or woman with stable tech expertise, bypass with Gentoo, Arch, Debian, or Slackware. all the different distros will only sluggish you down in case you could effectively use a variety of four. set up Compiz on it in case you prefer eye candy.
Mikkh
2010-02-20 19:04:08 UTC
The early versions were buggy, but that's been resolved now as far as I'm concerned.
There's nothing to stop you using KDE 4 in your current distro - or any number of alternative desktops if it comes to that. Just choose the desktop you want at login time.
I have KDE, Gnome, XFCE, LXDE and Enlightenment on this machine (Fedora 12 community edition)
It does make the menu a but top heavy though, but you can use your favourite Gnome app in KDE or vice versa if you have both installed.
There should be a meta package to drag in all of KDE's dependencies, but kdebase and kdelibs should get most of them for you
Linux Mint 11
2010-02-13 11:09:31 UTC
KDE 4 is still an utter pain. Take a look at installing Ubuntu 9.10 and running the GNOME 3 Shell which is an excellent compromise between GNOME and KDE