Hi,

I've use kde on kubuntu for about a few hours and am still exploring it's fascinating tool chains. I have a reasonably powerful system and performance is quite 'snappy'. I love this deeper integration of the desktop env with 'stuff' I am still very unfamiliar with a lot of things kde (even unix-likes) . Hoping to emerge enlightened.

PS: I might pop into the dev forums and perhaps even make a useful contirb .

Welcome it is truly an amazing OS and very fun to use. The Qt framework on which KDE is based is also very fun and powerful to program in.

Exploring what all there is and the different ways of how to do things is what makes Linux OS's such fun. It is much, much more than the monetary 'freeness', the mental 'freeness' and openness is what hooked me

That's awesome. Welcome aboard! KDE is great software built on an outstanding framework and supported by a community second to none. Check out kubuntu-devel on IRC if you want to get your finger directly on the pulse of what's happening. And of course here and planet.kde.org for all things purely KDE-centric