Need to settle on distro, please help me. Which to pick?

[Kdar1987]

I used (K)Ubuntu and openSuse before. I didn't really like how Ubuntu have their KDE version done.

Is there some other distros that focus mostly on KDE? (At the moment)

Also.. what is better? or rpm based or deb based? or it doesn't really matter?

[L4Linux]

For KDE 4, the 2 best options are OpenSuse and Mandriva. Period. I also use KDE 4 on Fedora and it is pretty good, but not as good as OpenSuse.
Ubuntu is a great choice if you prefer Gnome. I suggest Ubuntu to all my friends and colleagues.

About rpm and deb, I don't think that anyone can really say which is better since both are great and are constantly improving!
Personally I find deb to be faster than rpm, but others may disagree.
But since you want KDE and OpenSuse, Mandriva and Fedora use rpm while *Ubuntu uses deb it not much of a choice for you, is it?

[devils casper]

Did you install KDE in Ubuntu? Its definitely slow but KUbuntu is KDE based only and I don't have any problem with it yet.

Regarding Deb or RPM based distros, I prefer deb based distros only.

[daark.child]

I used (K)Ubuntu and openSuse before. I didn't really like how Ubuntu have their KDE version done.

Is there some other distros that focus mostly on KDE? (At the moment)

Also.. what is better? or rpm based or deb based? or it doesn't really matter?

Personally I don't see why a distros underlying packaging system matters. RPM and DEB based distros all work the same and the packaging tools are more or less on par regardless of what some may try to tell you. Obviously there are things that DPKG and APT are better at than RPM/YUM/URPMI,Zypper etc and vice versa. In he past it used to be that APT was significantly faster that yum, urpmi and zypper but these days I don't really see much difference. You can even use some Debian packaging tools like APT in RPM based distros (like PCLinuxOS).

[Kdar1987]

Thanks for replies.

Maybe are you right. I should not worry about deb or rpm.

Where do you think it would be easier for me to program something in Linux? Before (on my last Kubuntu install) I used to do some Qt4 and other programming.
Would I be better off with Gnome or KDE? (And are there IDEs available for KDE 4 already? I heard KDE 4 is lacking in software). Or would I need to go back to 3.5?

[techieMoe]

Thanks for replies.

Maybe are you right. I should not worry about deb or rpm.

Where do you think it would be easier for me to program something in Linux? Before (on my last Kubuntu install) I used to do some Qt4 and other programming.

If you're looking to program in QT, then KDE is the obvious choice because it's based on QT to begin with.

Would I be better off with Gnome or KDE? (And are there IDEs available for KDE 4 already? I heard KDE 4 is lacking in software). Or would I need to go back to 3.5?

I can't speak for KDE 4, but KDE 3.5 has KDevelop, a full-featured IDE that takes particular advantage of projects that use QT. However if you're just going to do generic C/C++ programming your desktop environment doesn't really matter all that much. There are IDEs available that work with either. Just off the top of my head:

Eclipse
code::blocks
Anjuta

And of course there's just good old text editor and command line.

[Kdar1987]

Are there any distros that have option for KDE 3.5?

[techieMoe]

Are there any distros that have option for KDE 3.5?

Yes, most of them do. Kubuntu 8.04 is one, but it's available in openSuSE 11.1 under "Other" during the install as well.