the best KDE distro

[dante19992]

Not hijacking, just asking a follow up that will help dante as well - does the Sabayon desktop feel as fast as other KDE distros? Is there another one that you can compare it to in terms of speed? And I don't mean benchmark speeds, just how responsive the desktop, apps opening, browsers, etc. feel to you as the user.

I have Sabayon KDE on one of my computers. It does feel a bit faster than some of the other distros but not fast enough to really matter.

It is a very stable system though..

Sabayon ate my hamster T.T Chakra said it might eat my hamster. Sabayon didn't. Chakra left the hamster alone. Sabayon ate it alive

[mintnoob]

Chakra is quickly becoming my favorite. Rolling, stable (as far as I can tell), polished, and has a great community.

[mintnoob]

Exactly why I will not use Chakra linux. I love the idea and It looks great even if the installer could "Eat my hamster" but it does not have any emulators. VBA snes9x dolphin mupen64 pcsx-r these are all emulators I need for my favorite games that Chakra does not have.

VBA - has
snes9x - Arch has, so shouldn't be no problem to package for Chakra.
dolphin - has
mupen64 - has
pcsx-r - has

[dante19992]

Wow about time. Does it have a front-end for VBA? also Desmume is a must

[mintnoob]

Does it have a front-end for VBA?

It says: "A VisualBoyAdvance frontend to configure the emulator easily."

It also has as a dependency, visualboyadvance: "An emulator for Gameboy and Gameboy Advance systems."

I'm not much of a gamer, so just going by what it says. They have a Game section at their forum you can get better info from than I.

also Desmume is a must

Yep.

The community is really friendly and good over there. I had a couple of package requests up and done within hours to one day. It's still a growing distro, packages are added daily. 85 packages in the last week alone so far into their Chakra Community Repo (CCR).

[dante19992]

I took a look. I really do like it so far I want to jump ship. But I am worried it may end up like openSUSE. and even still what kind of packages does Chakra use and how do you install them?

[arkanabar]

OpenSUSE is easy enough to use for gaming, and their KDE implementation is widely praised.

I've used OpenSUSE (11.1 Gnome) to play World of Warcraft in Wine. Installing proprietary nVidia and ATI drivers, the current development release of Wine, and huge amounts of other software is a snap (search their site for "1 click install" or "yast meta package"). OpenSUSE has truly extensive repos, and you're likely to find whatever you're looking for. Configuring EVERYTHING is done in YAST. Noodle around in there long enough, and you'll find what you're looking for.

Now, updating was slower than with Synaptic, but I think that was because they have different update protocols. Apt downloads all the packages, and then installs all the packages. Zypp downloads a package, installs the package, then downloads the next package, then installs it, and so on. But IMX, framerates were about equal in openSUSE and Linux Mint 6.

I've also used Sabayon Linux. Their command line package manager is called Entropy, and the GUI manager is called Sulfur. Sulfur is easy enough to use, but it absolutely pegged the meter for CPU usage. It also did ok with WoW, but doesn't have anywhere near the repos that ubuntu or opensuse does. I can't tell you if it will meet your other gaming needs.

BTW, game speed and KDE are not highly compatible IMX. I suggest UberBang (based on Lucid Lynx) or Mint LXDE if you want to stick with the Ubuntu base. I don't know how much RAM you have, but if it's plentiful (say >2GB), then you may want to disable swap space; you add the line "vm.swappiness = 0" to /etc/sysctl.conf. After that, disabling unneeded services will probably wind up having more effect on framerate than any other OS tweak, regardless of distro.

[dante19992]

I installed Chakra and gave it a good run. I like it. However my only disagreement is that the CCR defeats the point of their bundle system and GTK free philosophy in that the CCR has a bevy of GTK apps to install on your system. I find Chakra to be pretty stable and stuff. Honestly I can not decide which to use o.o chakra or kmint 10

[monkeyboy]

I installed Chakra and gave it a good run. I like it. However my only disagreement is that the CCR defeats the point of their bundle system and GTK free philosophy in that the CCR has a bevy of GTK apps to install on your system. I find Chakra to be pretty stable and stuff. Honestly I can not decide which to use o.o chakra or kmint 10

The CCR is a user stocked and supported repo and has nothing to do with the bundle system. If the user wants to avoid GTK apps they don't have to use them.

[dante19992]

I installed Chakra and gave it a good run. I like it. However my only disagreement is that the CCR defeats the point of their bundle system and GTK free philosophy in that the CCR has a bevy of GTK apps to install on your system. I find Chakra to be pretty stable and stuff. Honestly I can not decide which to use o.o chakra or kmint 10

The CCR is a user stocked and supported repo and has nothing to do with the bundle system. If the user wants to avoid GTK apps they don't have to use them.

I know but this represents a problem in that many programs that users like me need are gtk. as well (and I understand that this is difficult) the CCR could have a bundle system where people could upload user made bundles containing the gtk apps that people requested for the CCR as bundles. I know this was suggested during a previous meeting so I am certain that it will occur soon but until it does I find the gtk apps in the CCR counter-productive.

[monkeyboy]

Well I guess its a difference in approach, expectation and/or usage. I have had problems with Charka but not with getting favored GTK apps to run. Maybe you should give it a little more time to mature.

[dante19992]

Well I guess its a difference in approach, expectation and/or usage. I have had problems with Charka but not with getting favored GTK apps to run. Maybe you should give it a little more time to mature.

Oh no they all run. I mean that I find it counter-productive to their KDE-only philosophy and their push to produce a pure KDE distribution. They have strode ahead of many other distributions I have tried (the worst of which was openSUSE 11.4 the best of which was kmint 10). my worry is that, because there are some gtk apps I need that are not bundled, and because chakra is testing gtk free, the gtk libs may cause some BIG issues

[AlbertP]

I'm really liking Fedora 14 KDE. And it has the latest wine version.

It always takes a week for a new Wine version to appear as an update, that's why I compiled them myself when I was still using Fedora and Wine development version (in Wine 1.3.9 one of my programs did not work anymore, so I compiled 1.3.10 as soon as possible).

[kvv]

Slightly offtopic, but I am trying to download Pardus, as I heard it's the most polished KDE distro around. Thing is when I click on the download link for Pardus 2011, it prompts me for a username and password. Is everyone else facing this problem? Or is there another place to download it?

http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/download/

[dante19992]

Slightly offtopic, but I am trying to download Pardus, as I heard it's the most polished KDE distro around. Thing is when I click on the download link for Pardus 2011, it prompts me for a username and password. Is everyone else facing this problem? Or is there another place to download it?

http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/download/

I don't have this problem/

[MALsPa]

I tried it, too, but didn't see a prompt for a username and password.