What is your best favourite KDE distro?

I love the changing loyalties. :)

Heck, I've been loyal and faithful...lots of times.

lcafiero wrote: ...and sometimes humor (I think I'm funnier than Ken Hess)

Larry the Free Software Guy wrote:So if I were Etch-a-Sketch, I’d definitely get an attorney and look at Apple’s iPad and the Samsung Galaxy. Yep, some definite similarities there between the product I grew up with and those two, and some that a judge might find interesting.

Yep. You are funnier than Ken Hess.

Thanks Larry - I've been by your blog more than a few occasions.

BernardSwiss - honestly, I think it would be a shorter list if we wrote down who wasn't funnier than Ken Hess ;)

~Jeff

@ Grishnakh and Jeff91: My blog is not professional. It does not add much to my budget at all. As Jeff, I write my posts to deliver my thoughts to whoever cares. If you care enough to take part in another holy war of distributions, which I meant by this post, you're welcome. If you give no d@mn, it is your right. Sorry, Jeff, but post about crawling penguins in E17 is not something everyone would like to read either... and still... everyone is free to publish whatever he finds suitable.

I think we figured out all on our own that your blog wasn't professional DarkDuck.

Crawling penguins are at least cute. Getting people to flame back and forth over which distro is better is just silly.

~Jeff

Quoting:Getting people to flame back and forth over which distro is better is just silly.

Sure, but so are most 'modern ways' of entertainment.

In all fairness, if one compares "DarkDuck" -- let's call him a blogging enthusiast" -- to the typical "professional" tech journalist or commentator, he doesn't come off that badly.

So maybe he has a few lapses in his knowledge that he seems to not realize are there. Maybe he he doesn't have much depth of Linux knowledge. Maybe he comes off -- rightly or wrongly -- as somewhat self-promoting. No doubt he likes to see his page-hits increase. Well, who wouldn't?

But because of his enthusiastic tinkering he likely has more actual experience than many users (including myself). He may not be a RHCE or LPI cert-holdher, but a sense of fun and enthusiasm does come through. More importantly, he actually "does Linux" and writes about his actual experience, and he does so because he actually gives a damn, rather than because his employer has an agenda (or serves someone else's).

Anyhow, no one has to read his stuff, and yet apparently some people do. His blog may not be up to professional standards -- but he's still better -- significantly better -- than the typical mainstream popular IT sites, "professional" authors and commentators we all know all too well. Isn't he?

So what's all the fuss? He has an audience, and he's not FUD-ing left and right. Give it a rest, already.

Jeff, my blog was never meant to be professional. Have you seen any mentioning about professionalism on my blog?

If you give a damn to read "About me" page, you will see

Quoting:This blog is for everyone who is interested in the world of software in general, but in Open Source software in particular. Here I put down my experience with different versions of Linux (and some other) Operating Systems, and applications written to be used in it.

Don't accuse me in anything I have not done! Jeff, if you want to help to make my blog more "professional", do write for it. Otherwise, please shut up!

BernardSwiss: thanks for support!

DarkDuck, I've never made the assumption that your writing was professional. Not sure why you are under the impression that I did. In fact all I said about it was

"He consistently posts things that lack substance or depth."

Never accused you of anything mate. Take a chill pill :)

Cheers, ~Jeff Hoogland

No personal attack intended, but no matter what reason you have for the blog, professional or not, writing to instigate another Disto war is old, stale, and plain out silly.

Now, having all the right to publish your thoughts and opinions, others have the same right to let you know what they think of them, provided they don't include any personal attacks. I am not sure there were any in this thread.

Quoting:Now, having all the right to publish your thoughts and opinions, others have the same right to let you know what they think of them, provided they don't include any personal attacks. I am not sure there were any in this thread.

......although, one particular commentator did write these snippets here in this thread, in reverse chronological order:

1st

Quoting:DarkDuck, ... Never accused you of anything mate. Take a chill pill :)

(Timestamp Aug 05, 2011 10:08 AM EDT)



2nd

Quoting:I think we figured out all on our own that your blog wasn't professional DarkDuck.

Crawling penguins are at least cute. Getting people to flame back and forth over which distro is better is just silly.

(Timestamp Aug 04, 2011 10:59 AM EDT)



3rd

Quoting:Just saw this posting was from "Dark Duck". He consistently posts things that lack substance or depth. Remember - anyone is allowed to post things on the internet.

(Timestamp Aug 02, 2011 1:54 AM EDT)



(quick, quick....EDIT out the last not-so-subtle personally-directed accusation before too many other readers notice!!)

The fact that I am an asshole aside, was I wrong in any of my points vain?

~Jeff

Maybe not wrong, jeff91, but unnecessarily harsh and personal-attackish. Enough is enough. No need to question darkduck's motives or treat him like our favorite ZDNet professional blogger, who likes to fuel the flames.

I must be going blind, I didnt see a personal attack just a perfectly simple statement of fact.

Sometimes I just dont know what the world is coming to when someone cannot point out a fact and it suddenly becomes a personal attack.

Most of DarkDucks stuff has been "content lite", this is not a personal attack I do not know Duck I just read his stuff because it gets posted here. He may be the nicest guy on this planet he may even be gods gift to women and IT, I dont know, what I do know is the lack of real discernible content in his writing.

Im not saying im any better as far as my blog posts are concerned which is why I keep most of my blog posts confined to purely informational to users of my software and I certainly don't post them here, mostly because I have little to say and even if I did have something to say my grammar sucks like a hoover you just ask Computer Bob :)

Please do not construe this as personal it isnt, I just like to see something of substance in writing regardless whether you are professional or amateur and would be more than happy to read his blog if this were the case, it isn't and have ceased reading his posts.

I will say this though what I did get from his posts was a real sense of enthusiasm for Linux which i did appreciate but for me a lack of content is a no no and simply pointing out that fact is not grounds for this "personal attack" rubbish thats now being bandied about.

Good points, Koriel. Sorry Jeff91, I have a soft spot for enthusiasts and don't like to see them beat up.

In regards to "personal attacks", I think we all need to be better informed, in different ways of course.

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_personal_attacks

http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/personal-attack.htm...

And the truly twisted minds (like mine) find ways to insinuate all three into a single comment (like this one).

And Mint is still the best.

For TC.

Quoting:And Mint is still the best.

Quoting:For TC.

Perhaps solely for KDE on desktop workstations.

OTOH, according to the link http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/154444/ , TC clearly prefers Community Server distros other than Mint.

Besides, there is yet another recent desktop distro-comparison piece entitled 'The best Linux distro of 2011!' found at the link http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/154353