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Reliable Linux distribution for eye candy, desktop use and notebooks?
Owdy:
openSUSE with KDE desktop. It rocks. Hard. many openSUSE devs are also KDE devs. So we get new packages fast/first.
edit: Kubuntu is horrible KDE distro, Ubuntu is very good if you like Gnome, but Kubuntu, dont use it. Kubuntu is buggiest KDE desktop i know.
青山 素子:
--- Quote from: Owdy on August 27, 2011, 09:20:25 AM ---openSUSE with KDE desktop. It rocks. Hard. many openSUSE devs are also KDE devs. So we get new packages fast/first.
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Yeah, the SuSE family is one of the first-class KDE distributions.
--- Quote from: Owdy on August 27, 2011, 09:20:25 AM ---edit: Kubuntu is horrible KDE distro, Ubuntu is very good if you like Gnome, but Kubuntu, dont use it. Kubuntu is buggiest KDE desktop i know.
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Last I checked, this was the case. The KDE that comes with it is fairly standard, doesn't integrate well, and generally is buggy because of this. I understand at one point Canonical was looking at using Qt and doing better KDE integration, but their overlay of Unity on top of GNOME makes me think they forgot that.
I'm happily using Mageia (a fork of Mandriva) with much success. Mageia, like Mandriva, is very KDE-focused. Because of this, it's possibly one of the smoothest experiences with KDE. Even back in the more buggy KDE 4.1 days with Mandriva, I wasn't running into any of the issues that were being brought up by Kubuntu users and KDE was rock stable for me. I'm using an Intel graphic chipset on my laptop and nVidia on my desktop and have decent eye candy (courtesy of KWin) on both of them. I even use my laptop's HDMI out to play videos on a large TV, which works very well (although the Intel video driver for Xorg can be a bit weird at times).
Owdy:
Mageia, has they released stable release allready? :) Gotta try that.
edit: yes they have: http://www.mageia.org/fi/1/
Dragooon:
Currently I'm running openSUSE with Thunderbird for email, Firefox for browsing, Pidgin for chatting and ATi propriety drivers. Still looking out for an IDE and a git client.
Owdy:
You can find them in your package manager. Open Yast2 and search. Or: http://software.opensuse.org/ (use 1-Click )
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