Revisited: 3 Newbie-Friendly KDE Distributions

[ Thanks to Prashanth for this link.
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“In anticipation of my new laptop, I decided to test 5
major KDE distributions to see which one could work best on my
laptop. As it happens, I ended up testing all of these on my old
Sony VAIO desktop and installed Linux Mint 9 GNOME on my laptop. Go
figure.

“Each of these distributions aims to provide a hospitable and
workable environment for the new user/Windows migrant. As such,
there are a few features I expect to see included out-of-the-box.
One of these is Firefox. A lot of implementations of KDE provide
Konqueror instead of Firefox; while Konqueror may be faster and
doubles as an excellent file manager, in terms of extensibility,
ability to handle pretty much any webpage, and name recognition,
Konqueror doesn’t come close to Firefox. Along with this, I expect
to see proprietary codecs included out-of-the-box. The story is
similar for KOffice versus OpenOffice.org, so I also expect to see
OpenOffice.org present and integrated nicely with KDE. I also want
to see good hardware support (as tested by checking for support of
my Logitech Quickcam Communicate STX USB webcam)
out-of-the-box.”

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