KDE 4.3.3 has been released. "KDE 4.3.3 has a number of improvements that will make your life just a little bit better. Some of KWin's effects have been smoothed and freed of visual glitches, JuK should now be more stable, KDE PIM has seen its share of improvements while in the back-rooms of KDE, the developers are working hard on porting all applications to the new Akonadi storage and cache."
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Member since:2008-08-07
I wouldn't bet on it.
I have two almost identical computers at work, one running Arch Linux and the other openSuse 11.0. Both have KDE 4.3 but the difference between the two is like night and day. While KDE on Arch is very fast and smooth, for some reason it is amazingly sluggish on openSuse, to the point that I've almost given up on it.
Perhaps the comparison isn't fair, since Arch only runs the background processes that you tell it to, whereas openSuse comes with a bunch that are enabled by default. But this is fairly new hardware that I'm talking about so I don't think it should make that much of a difference...
Member since:2006-05-12
Member since:2006-05-09
I had installed Kubuntu 9.04 in my box until the last week and I agree with you: Kubuntu seems to be a second-class citizen; so I wanted to give one more change to Kubuntu and tried to update it to Kubuntu 9.10 and had a lot of problems while updating...
So I took a Gentoo minimal CD copy, installed it from the scratch, it took me several days but right now I have a beautiful KDE 4.3.2 environment in my box... I simply love it...
I do not know if KDE 4.2 was the problem or Kubuntu was, but its user experience is quite poor.
On the other hand, Gentoo is not the leader of desktop systems but this KDE version on my Gentoo box is working perfectly.
Member since:2005-09-10
Anything is better than Kubuntu. Mandriva's just out, they always had excellent KDE support. OpenSuse's also fine, although I liked Mandriva better (no particular reason, just a personal preference).
If you're adventurous, or simply want to learn more about linux, try Arch. KDE 4.3.3 was in the repos a day before the announcment was made on kde.org 
Member since:2008-12-26
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2006-01-03
I have to install OpenSuse in a spare partition and give this a try. I downloaded 10.2 beta the other day, but I will now wait for this to get in.
I have been running Kubuntu at home since recently, coming from Ubuntu, to check how KDE is doing, and so far I have hated it; seemingly Kubuntu is only the poor cousin of Ubuntu, and that shows. I hope OpenSuse with KDE will be better.