who does kde best?

[fuscia]

which distro does kde best? best performance, best setup (whatever i meant by that), etc. bsd vs. linux?

[wenzlicker]

Personally, I think the distro doesn't matter. KDE is an application (desktop environment) running on your computer. For the most part, you will not notice a difference.

Things that you will notice in distros, is the way packages are managed, not specific applications. What might be different is the current version that the distro is using.

[aysiu]

The distro actually makes a big difference. Kubuntu is slow. Mepis is fast. There are plenty of other distros for which KDE is faster than it is on Kubuntu.

[slimdog360]

I really like it in mepis. I had freebsd going for a short while with kde, I really liked it with that. Ran great. At the moment Ive replaced freebsd with desktopbsd, same thing but with a better package manager. Well I suppose its the same package manager but the front end for it is better.
In short Id have to say from what Ive used Mepis does kde justice.

[fuscia]

in the past, i've installed kde-core, but i just installed kubuntu-desktop, instead, and i notice a lot of differences. i'm sure there are different ways to set it up in default, so that was the origin of my question. kde-core, on my laptop, runs much differently from kde on my old desktop, so i'm guessing hardware can be a consideration as well.

btw, i'm liking kubuntu a lot.

[kerry_s]

I would have to say pclinuxos seemed to me to be the best kde out of the box. I really liked there mini versions and they give you a choose of 3 levels of kde. No other distro gives you that many choose's for kde.

I would do edgy/dapper+server+kde-core if i wanted to install kde though. I'm a control freak when it comes to my system and would much rather build it up my way.

[K.Mandla]

Slax. I can run Slax on a 300Mhz laptop without a hard drive and the desktop is beautiful. All that from a NeoMagic 2200 graphics card, too. I was impressed.

[ComplexNumber]

i would say that suse is the best kde (apart from the slowness of login and yast).

[TrailerTrash]

Slax. I can run Slax on a 300Mhz laptop without a hard drive and the desktop is beautiful. All that from a NeoMagic 2200 graphics card, too. I was impressed.

The most fast KDE ive used was on KANOTIX.

K.Mandla, What version of SLAX did you use on that old laptop? Was it KDE, Flux, or XFCE? Thnaks

[ahaslam]

Definitely SLAX - speed with great look & feel, without loosing functionality. Yoper is also very good but it's a little old now. I don't like many of the newer KDE distros (inc. Kubuntu), they're far too bloated & quite sluggish on my laptop. Even a 'kdebase' install feels bloated, I know that Gnome has bloat but it doesn't get in my way.

Tony.