I'm a newbie and already I'm loving KDS.

Good to know that KDE will be useful to you. What applications are you going to use KDE for and what benefits will they bring you?

There has not yet been a calligra release. Most of koffice is not considered ready for general use yet. krita, a drawing application, and kspread, a spreadsheet application, are considered ready, but amongst consumer-oriented applications they aren't. Also, all koffice and calligra applications lack support for writing MS office formats, although they can read those formats.

You are better off using libreoffice for most things for the time being.

@alice88: welcome to KDE!

@greener1: i second blackcat's suggestion that you use libre office. i use it for everything and it might not be as nice as ms office if ur used to that, but it's free and it does all the main things ms office does.

P.S. Koffice is great, especially all the work thats gone into Krita, but the interface needs some love. the rebranding to calligra is part of the updating effort and they hope to make things much better with a redesigned interface, but that effort has just started and isnt there yet. Still, I'd encourage you to try it out and see what you think about it urself.