On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 07:56 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Scott <scle...@sgaming.ca> [2009 Nov 10 07:31 -0600]: > > My question here is KDE well documented and stable on Debian? I > > understand that Gnome is also the default desktop for Debian, but is KDE > > well supported?
I am using KDE right now on my Debian machine. I started using Debian a lot more in the last few months because I was looking for something I could easily upgrade without a CD since my CD / DVD drives seems to be going on this machine, and so I was basically thinking "FreBSD, or Debian... Well, I already have two machines with FreeBSD, I'll try this new version of Debian out" and noce I got the Netnistall CD done, I popped it in, and started up the installation. The machine has two HDs in it. One is the 80 GB drive it came with which I use for XP because I like UT and DooM and Quake (Which oddly enough I got working in Debian in a very small amount of time anyway) and then a 160 GB drive I installed which I gave Debian. I like KDE and Gnome both, and I use whatever I feel like. My set up on this machine is basically whatever I need. I have KDE installed, Gnome, Enlightenment, Window Maker, FVWM, FVWM2, LXDE, Afterstep, TWM, and I think a few more, but this is because sometimes I want KDE (Like right now) sometimes I want Gnome, and sometimes I want something that isn't so much of a desktop like Window Maker or Enlightenment. I've found Debian to be not only good, but it's gotten so good I made this machine my main workstation. I use it for most of my email, web surfing, and I use it for making music with LMMS which was easy to install on Debian too, and now use it all the time every day. I still have my FTP server running Slackware 12 because changing OSs on that is a huge undertaking, and it works fine. I also still have an old machine running Slackware 13.0 and Windows 98 SE (Because The Magic The Gathering CD I have to play it on there only works in Windows 9X, it's the original version that won't install on NTFS) and I have my Laptop with XP and Slackware 13.0, and then my second workstation / PC with FreeBSD 7.1 on it for email and also as a second FTP server for testing stuff. I don't like Ubuntu at all. The installation discs I had replaced my Windows NT installation CD Coffee Cup Coasters. (Can't stain my desk!) But if you're going to try Debian out, I think you'll like it. Ubuntu is based on it except I think Debian is about 300 times better. If you like KDE, just do this once you've got it installed: apt-get update && apt-get install kde I did that and a few minutes later I had KDE running. It works great and unlike some distros who only have KDE as an option, Debian actually looks and runs good on KDE. I don't use KDE4 because my machines are dated now, but it does run OK too. -Allen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org