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I'm not a Linux guy, but I'm curious. And I prefer "vanilla" experience when I'm trying a new toy. Which Linux distribution should I use if I want to test a KDE

I'm not a Linux guy, but I'm curious. And I prefer "vanilla" experience when I'm trying a new toy. Which Linux distribution should I use if I want to test a KDE as clean as possible?

toyg 15y ago
Arch Linux is the most "vanilla" distribution you'll ever find -- their philosophy is that the machines should download original packages directly from upstream and customize them as little as possible. I know quite a few KDE devs work on Arch. Btw, for the same reasons, installing Arch is not as easy as Ubuntu or SuSE; you'll have to dig in quite a few config files.
omn1 15y ago
Slackware Linux currently features a vanilla KDE 4.5.5. Tastes differ so you might like others (like Kubuntu and OpenSuse), too.
- koenigdavidmj 15y ago
  * Slackware patches KDE to remove the PAM dependency. * The Slackware devs do not much fancy the new HAL replacements. * KDE apparently changed the compilation infrastructure such that everything comes as a lot of little packages, which makes maintenance harder for them. Without somebody to step up, Alien Bob has even implied that KDE might get dropped from the official package list.
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veeti 15y ago
I have no complaints about Fedora. I don't think that they change anything else but the wallpapers.
pbhjpbhj 15y ago
When I was considering moving from Kubuntu (my previous long term distro was Slackware; I tried a lot in between) I was considering OpenSUSE because they appear to integrate KDE better than other distros. It's not vanilla but I hear it's KDE done right, properly integrated and extended - I've not made the jump (too entrenched now probably). I'd say Arch gets most often reported as most vanilla, but I don't think most vanilla is necessarily a good thing. http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=6673&start=150 http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=6673&start... (the question comes up often) http://www.tylerburton.ca/2010/03/my-search-for-the-best-kde-linux-distribution/ http://www.tylerburton.ca/2010/03/my-search-for-the-best-kde... (a bit old now) http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/hpcmr/what_is_the_best_kde_distro/ http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/hpcmr/what_is_the_bes...
gtaylor 15y ago
Arch Linux. They have new KDE packaged very quickly, it's pretty vanilla. There is some more leg work to get set up right after installing than an Ubuntu or Debian.

I'm not a Linux guy, but I'm curious. And I prefer "vanilla" experience when I'm trying a new toy. Which Linux distribution should I use if I want to test a KDE as clean as possible?

toyg 15y ago

Arch Linux is the most "vanilla" distribution you'll ever find -- their philosophy is that the machines should download original packages directly from upstream and customize them as little as possible. I know quite a few KDE devs work on Arch. Btw, for the same reasons, installing Arch is not as easy as Ubuntu or SuSE; you'll have to dig in quite a few config files.

omn1 15y ago

Slackware Linux currently features a vanilla KDE 4.5.5. Tastes differ so you might like others (like Kubuntu and OpenSuse), too.

koenigdavidmj 15y ago
* Slackware patches KDE to remove the PAM dependency. * The Slackware devs do not much fancy the new HAL replacements. * KDE apparently changed the compilation infrastructure such that everything comes as a lot of little packages, which makes maintenance harder for them. Without somebody to step up, Alien Bob has even implied that KDE might get dropped from the official package list.

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veeti 15y ago

I have no complaints about Fedora. I don't think that they change anything else but the wallpapers.

pbhjpbhj 15y ago

When I was considering moving from Kubuntu (my previous long term distro was Slackware; I tried a lot in between) I was considering OpenSUSE because they appear to integrate KDE better than other distros. It's not vanilla but I hear it's KDE done right, properly integrated and extended - I've not made the jump (too entrenched now probably). I'd say Arch gets most often reported as most vanilla, but I don't think most vanilla is necessarily a good thing. http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=6673&start=150 http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=6673&start... (the question comes up often) http://www.tylerburton.ca/2010/03/my-search-for-the-best-kde-linux-distribution/ http://www.tylerburton.ca/2010/03/my-search-for-the-best-kde... (a bit old now) http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/hpcmr/what_is_the_best_kde_distro/ http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/hpcmr/what_is_the_bes...

gtaylor 15y ago

Arch Linux. They have new KDE packaged very quickly, it's pretty vanilla. There is some more leg work to get set up right after installing than an Ubuntu or Debian.