A perception: Canonical concentrates on gnome based platform by its design decisions. Though they have a KDE flavour known as kubuntu, its just an offering for the sake of it and is often criticized as bloated. The (parent) distro by and far is tuned to gnome principles. Also, to my understanding, Linux mint, another debian derivative too is predominantly gnome based.
It is not that, you can't install KDE on top of these distros. But the fact that, these are not well knitted for the K desktop environment stands ground. It is because of such constant criticism that, kubuntu developers announced project timelord (http://www.kubuntu.org/news/timelord) which would be beneficial in the long run. We would assume that by kubuntu 11.10, the full potential of KDE would be made use of by the team instead of the half baked offerings, now in town. Why I say half baked? They were reluctant to offer plasmoids first. They broke kNetworkManager next. They usually miss the development circle of KDE. And lots more. For a good KDE experience, you should try a KDE centric distro. Here are the distributions shipping KDE (which obviously includes kubuntu): http://www.kde.org/download/distributions.php Read this comparison too: http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/8-of-the-best-kde-distributions-657523 My suggestions: 1. OpenSuse for a n00b. It has on the fly installation like ubuntu. I have tested this, but was not robust or flexible as I intended it to be. One of the most favorite KDE distro in Europe. Instead of the blue interface of KDE, OpenSuse's version wears a Green gown. 2. Chakra Gnu/Linux (still in Alpha, but highly optimised, running KDEmod, a tweaked modular version of KDE, bleeding edge. Will rock the world soon.) 3. Pardus 4. Mandriva 5. Arch Linux with {KDE, KDE-meta, KDEmod} Highly customisable. As robust as you intend. No graphic installer. Should love Konsole too to use this. 6. FreeBSD (Not Linux. But highly robust. No malayalam support yet) 7. Slackware (vanilla KDE, with no modifications, no port based system as in Arch, so more Konsole based) Bottom line: None of this is .deb based. -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
