Quote Originally Posted by fullmetalcoder View Post
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It depends... I used to use Fedora because it was the only distro that managed to get every piece of hardware working on my 6 years old box (HP printer, Nvidia GF2MX, Wifi card with only ndiswrapper working, ...). However I finally found Frugalware (which is ,or used to be, based on Slackware) and I'm quite happy with it
Nowadays mostly all hardware is supported and works very well, especially if you use vendor drivers.

Suse is heavy and the default GUI themes are crappy... I've tested about 20 distros in a year and, apart from the two mentioned above only Pardus and Mepis someway satisfied me (but not enough to keep them obviously... )
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You can always drop the themes(and even the whole package) and use a default KDE installation. It's better to compile almost everything locally.

Regards