i believe opensuse is one the best distro to run kde4for its performance and reliablity, however it is not for beginner and i sometimes look around and research to get stuff working.KDE4 runs great on it and so far never had any issues.

I believe opensuse is one of the best distributions for beginners.

For day to day carefree use I like KDE 4.1.2 on Mandriva 2009 the most. They did a great packaging and integration work and I like the Mandriva Control Center a lot. Well another reason is that Mandriva in whole is well translated into Slovenian.

On the other hand, when I feel a bit more adventurous and in hacking mood I use KDE 4 compiled from trunk on Gentoo.

Kubuntu is the best...:shade:

I think Kubuntu 8.10 could be the best kde4 distro.

So far I tried Suse, Kubuntu 8.10 beta and Arch. Settled for Arch as my KDE4 distro at the moment. I have found it the most straightforward and stable distro to use KDE4, although atm MEPIS is my main production distro with KDE 3.5.9.

I've tried many, many distros, but Kubuntu is still my distro.

Before I forget: Intrepid will rock your socks[n!] :P

I've tried the developmental KDE 4 versions of OpenSUSE, Fedora, Mandriva, and Kubuntu. Of those four, I find Kubuntu to be the best because it takes a more conservative stance than the others and isn't as heavily customized. It comes with very reasonable defaults, .deb packages and APT, and it has a lot of popular support since it's part of Ubuntu.

I am keeping to the one I know (sort of) = Kubuntu.
Later... when I have the guts (and time) I will try some of the others.

Mandriva. No Doubt.

Well I tried OpenSuse11.3 beta and just can't get on with it, not a fan of yast but KDE was nice. Giving Kubuntu another go and apart from a strange flickering when I type it's really nice, good work Kubuntu devs!

The strange flickering seems to be an old bug that re-appeared with the latest xorg. https://launchpad.net/bugs/6365
It seems to only affect people using the nvidia Geforce 4 series of cards.

Thanks I'll have a look at that, although I'm using a SiS integrated card. Don't want to take over this thread with that problem so started a new thread here about the flickering problem

Windows!






Seriously, Debian is undoubtly the best distro for KDE.

I always used Gentoo and was very happy with it. During my thesis I switched to Kubuntu because I thought I would save some (compiling)time and take care of my notebook. I was very wrong as I know now. Means I going to switch asap. to Arch or Gentoo again.