My bad; wasn't thinking when i typed that. I meant Window manager.

Sure thing buddy, you made your point. Thanks for contributing to the conversation. (-:

Well only have experience with KDE using Mint. So that's the one I've voted for.

For me it just works and it's speedy as well. :)

I voted Mageia. I've migrated through Mepis, PCLinuxOS and Mandriva to Mageia, and I find it capable, stable and good looking.

Wrong Question
 

The question should be, Which Distro Keeps KDE Under Control The Best?
I've recently tried the current releases of OpenSuse, Fedora and Debian Testing. In each one KDE exhibited different annoying unresolvable quirks and issues. The whole thing felt fragile and I've now given up on it.

I think that must be included only that distributions which have KDE as its main supported or primary developed DE, as Kubuntu or Mandriva

I don't use Slackware, so I can't judge. But gosh that's picturesque speech! I'm tempted to submit it to Reader's Digest.

Huh? I choose the best of each. There's no confusion.

@ KenJackson where did you pull that last quote from? i can't see where commoditytipsfree has participated in this thread.
On a side not, i'm using pure kde now but go through stages of mixing desktop environments too. My latest one which no longer exist was a gnome2 session with nautilus completely removed from the system (i hate nautilus), and then i had plasma-desktop and kwin set for autostart. I'd post a link here to the opensuse forum where i've post a pic, but my internet has gone over it's limit and therefor has been slowed, and that forum for some reason has a lot of lag, and i won't be venturing into it until my data gets refreshed.

Hey! I don't see it now either. It was right between my two posts above.

But I can guess what happened. I didn't pay attention to the name, but with a name like that, it was probably an attempt to post a spam link that the moderator deleted. You know what they do--they sign up as a user, and maybe post a couple comments and then add a signature with a link to their spam site. Often the comments are text grabbed at random from any online book, which escapes automated detection. In this case, it looked legit.

A spam post, deleted by the Mods?

Another vote for Magiea. Started using Mageia 2 Beta 3 and I won't say there aren't issues..(codecs & drivers mostly), but as far as a distro that brings out the best of KDE & qt, I really don't think it can be beat. Runs e17 ok when KDE is too heavy too. 've only run those two and razorqt and I look forward to Mageia 2's official release. I loath Mint & Kubuntu, the only Ubuntu (not Debian) based OS I ever turn to is Bodhi. PCLOS, SuSE & Slackware are both solid with kde as well IMHO. Professionally I lean towards fluxbox or no WM, but as a desktop I've always been a KDE guy. I don't know why, but I have always hated GNOME, even before the advent of version 3.

Yes, Mageia is a nice distro. I use it for some months, hoping between KDE and GNOME. KDE works stable. But it seems, that this distro is more Gnome oriented. Look at repository! There are not some KDE applications (KDE partition manager for instance). By default, you can not call some Gmome applications in KDE? in KDE menu there aren't links for them, you must make them manually editing menu, or through the console call out these programs. They work not alway good. So gparted sometimes fails. Gnome is better equipped with packages, and more apt for some system administration tasks, such as partitioning.

I don't know if you referring specifically to mageias kde or kde in general. I haven't tried mageia yet (i'm holding out till version 2) but using kde in Opensuse, i don't have this issue, and i've never had it in any other distro either.

That's rather a strong statement to make, and very debatable. I tend to disagree. I get what your saying, but i don't tend to use gui tools for admin tasks, (except Yast on rare occasions) and i think kdes programs are generally of better quality.

My Notice, which one can consider too critical, refers exclusively to KDE in Mageia. In Open Suse the matter is entirly different. There KDE is most balanced DE, and I it as my favorite DE, especially after introducing GNOME3. More over Open Suse project pays most attention for KDE.

PCLinuxOS: best for me!
 

Hi,
I have been a PCLinuxOS user for quite a long time. I have found the support good, & when I needed special program to load my Samsung phone Texstar got it working for me. (I now run an ex-US ATT Motorola Atrix running Nottachtrix: love it too!).
Before PCL, I used Mepis: I cannot remember exactly why I changed, but I was surprised that with PCLinuxOS everything just worked. I almost moved distro a couple of years ago when PCL seemed to stagnate, but everything came back together just in time to make me stay (The old saying: If it aint broke, dont fix it!) I bumble my way around Linux, so like the stability of a system that always works. The only time I have done a reload is when my Computer breaks (usually due to a lightning strike! The joys of living in the country). My current system is a Dual core Atom: slow but low power, & easily fast enough for what I want, added to which it was relatively cheap!

regards Doug (Australia)