Based on the users here on this forum, can I find out what is the most popular KDE linux distro?

Cannot give you a straight answer, but know Mandriva is doing VERY well.

And welcome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

probabaly kubuntu or at least they have the most problems and post the most. Sorry Kubuntu fans just couldn't resist.

The truth is that every distro has is strengths, weaknesses, and ideal use. Kubuntu is usually very popular, but it seems that the current release has some big problems. The last version and probably the next one will be fine. If you are actually wanting to choose one, try as many Live CD versions as you can get, because 'the best' depends entirely on what you want from it.

Kubuntu can only get better (yes, it's my personal opinion that Kubuntu needs some luve...9.04, for instance, came with beta wireless networking software that was unable to connect to modern WPA networks!)

Mandriva is highly polished, as is OpenSUSE...but for me, RPM has never been something I could get used to.

Debian based KDE distros, on the other hand, are few and far between; there are more or less three options for the catagory of newbie-friendly debian based KDE distros, and those are:

Kubuntu
Linux Mint 7 KDE edition
Epidemic Linux

The latter two use KDE 4.2, which for me is still pretty buggy. Linux Mint's release is too close to KDE's release to give it a more up-to-date KDE version, despite the numerous requests, I have not yet seen an easy upgrade path for Linux Mint users (unless you want to run the risk of Kubuntu Jaunty overriding your system)

Epidemic looks...interesting, but sadly, it's KDE 4.2...

Kubuntu is the only one, really.

Dante Ashton wrote:The latter two use KDE 4.2

But what's keeping you from biulding latest version yourself?

Dante Ashton wrote:Kubuntu is the only one, really.

Now this, is more like starting another flame.

As for question asked - take a look here: http://polishlinux.org/choose/ and choose kde based distro. But don't deal it as oracle, it's just for those who's confused of so many distros around.

Hardly a flame.

Listen, I don't build, I don't compile. I'm no programmer, I'm just a writer and researcher. Considering the thread starter is using Xp, I assume they don't wish to build or compile either.

Dante Ashton wrote:Listen, I don't build, I don't compile. I'm no programmer

But you are a linux user. Don't tell me you never compile anything.
Anyway compiling doesn't need any *magical_hacking_command_line_skills*, it's simple as "./configure && make && make install" as for KDE is "mkdir build && cd build && camke .. && make && make install".

As on second thought you may be right at this point (kubuntu).

Nope, never. Only really found myself wanting to compile thunderbird 3 as of late, but I made good with a repo instead

I'm personally waiting for automatc compilation and installation of software...

Dante Ashton wrote:I'm personally waiting for automatc compilation and installation of software...

That's what you have. You don't have to write configuration headers, run compiler, copy files etc. You have automated build system to do that.

fronty wrote:

Dante Ashton wrote:I'm personally waiting for automatc compilation and installation of software...

That's what you have. You don't have to write configuration headers, run compiler, copy files etc. You have automated build system to do that.

The system, however, is not fully automated, is it? I still have to tell the OS to find, compile and install the damn file. I couldn't just click it and get it over and done with...

Ports collection is just for that.

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cd /usr/ports/www/apache22
make config-recursive  # or just config
make install clean