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What's your favourite KDE distro?
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I don't think I have a favorite, I just happen to use kubuntu.
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"One word — Gentoo."
That's three words... Just kidding. openSUSE, absolutely. I have never seen a more thoroughly implemented KDE in all my distro-hopping days. They even backport trunk features into the release branch, so you can get some bleeding edge goodies without staying on the edge itself. And then to think they keep an equally up to date GNOME too! Man, those guys must be nuts! Just my opinions on a couple others... Kubuntu never sat well with me. It always felt like Ubuntu with KDE crammed on top. I know this must have a lot to do with the lack of official Canonical support of Kubuntu, but it still didn't work well for me. I never liked "raw" desktop implementations. Fedora, well, I'm no Red Hat fan. I think the main reasons I choose SUSE over Fedora is primarily technical, but their KDE implementation suffers many of the same problem as Kubuntu. At least they replace the "K" in the menu with the Fedora logo.
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I'm on Arch now and very happy with it.
Used to have Gentoo and made the stupid decision to switch to Kubuntu for half a year to save some (compile)time on the notebook. Before, I had SuSE but a couple of other distros but I will never again install something that uses rpm packages.  Arch reminds me a bit of Gentoo but gives me more choice.
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Still debian
 now with 4.2 RC1 from http://kde42.debian.net/debian/
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4.1.96 ebuilds are long in the overlay, but where is the source?
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Vector Linux SoHo is my favorite KDE3 distro. I don't really have a favorite KDE4 distro.
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For me it's sidux. But as sidux has no entry on its own I vote for Debian, because sidux is Debian.
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Slackware for me.
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I guess my avatar says it all, must confess that sometimes I feel the Kubuntu is the poor relative to Ubuntu. But for the most it is good. I install a lot of Linux on friends & work colleagues computers & I pick Kubuntu for them because of the large Ubuntu community support base.
Cary BTW If I had to pick 2nd best it would be Debian:shade:
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Arch Linux - definitely. I run vanilla kde and it's been awesome. With Arch, there is a somewhat steep learning curve, but the documentation (Arch Wiki) is excellent and guides you every step of the way. I learnt more about how my comp works in the first couple of weeks of using Arch than I did in the two years I used Kubuntu. Basically, it's a really good DIY distro that you can comfortably use if you are familiar with using linux.
Ubuntu and to a lesser extent, Kubuntu is perfect for newbies. Arch is perfect for the intermediate and higher level users...
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Mepis and sidux. Waiting for 4.2 to hit sid.
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Mepis-8.0 (from the Debian-family). :thumbs_up: (b)
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Arch Linux. It's the best distro with KDE I ever tried.
(I'd also like to try Gentoo, but in my desktop pc I'll always use Arch. Maybe I'll install Gentoo in my laptop.)
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Mandriva, my favourite distro ever.
Mandriva is not DE centric, so Mandriva has KDE3 (gonna be phased out starting from the next release 2009.1 in April), KDE4, Gnome, XFCE and LXDE (LXDE replace icewm as the default light weight DE). That's beside an assortment of window managers 
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