toad wrote:I am waiting for the day when somebody plucks up the courage to suggest a distro which is not their own

Well, I usually use Sabayon, I' ve installed Chakra only few days ago

Yep, I believe Chakra is nice - same goes for Sabayon. I was wondering whether I should give Chakra a virtual spin but I cannot get myself to give up my Arch install until it is at least ten years old

Chakra is a very nice distro. Some features are very interesting, as "bundles" Hope you' ll try it

I agree with Chaosphere, chakra is a very nice distro. I am currently triple booting slack (my favorite), chakra, and good old ubuntu.

Arch FTW!

Opensuse can't be beaten!

Well, Kubuntu it is for me since 2005. It is in my experience the distro where you can have a direct link to the developers and be heard. It is also quite close to vanilla KDE, provides all -dev and -dbg packages as well as the latest upstream releases in the backports PPA.

I have gone through a lot of distros shipping KDE and every now and then try a new one on my old laptop, but I always came back to Kubuntu.

My KDE (and Linux) curriculum since 1999: Red Hat - SuSE - Mandrake - Debian - Kubuntu

Tried distros: Fedora, OpenSuSE, Mandrake, Mepis, Gentoo, Mint, Arch, Chakra (in no particular order)

I voted for Kubuntu as it's the only one that I've used apart from a few runs of the OpenSUSE live CD which wouldn't install when I decided that I would give it a try on a spare hard drive.

I currently have Kubuntu 11.04, 11.10 and 12.04 installed.

Sabayon. They test and provide the newest builds possible, so I could enjoy KDE's new trends and implementations.
I also use KDE under Windows 7 64 bit.
I am KDE addicted .

Arch Linux.

I tried a few distributions with KDE, the worst I've came across is openSUSE for me (incredible slow even with proprietary drivers). Kubuntu was OK, but I dunno, I don't like Ubuntu in general.

Arch brings just everything I need and is super efficient.
I can't think of any other distro.

I used KDE with Arch Linux and recently tried OpenSuse and I think of all the distro's I have tried so far for KDE(Kubuntu, ArchLinux, Chakra, Fedora,Mint) I liked OpenSuse the most it is really nice... I don't know how to to put it, but KDE in OpenSuse just feels right, don't ask me why !

The KDE Forums use phpBB.

I'm surprised that Chakra isn't nominated. Their's is the best KDE implementation out there. Vanilla with custom artwork.

Ubuntu (currently 11.10, waiting to try 12.04 final release) + KDE 4.8 does it for me. Note that I am not running Kubuntu, I just apt-get'd KDE over a vanilla Ubuntu install. It makes my desktop feel somewhat more personal knowing no one has pre-configured it to send out in a mass distrobution .

Kubuntu, but customized. Rather than installing the distro as a whole, I install a base command-line Ubuntu and then follow with specific KDE packages from Kubuntu. I've posted my procedure at Kubuntu Forums: http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?56552.

It needs a bit of updating for Precise. Also, I've switched Phonon's backend from GStreamer to VLC, and I need to incorporate that into the build documentation.
http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?57553