It's time for me to upgrade to kde 4.

Well, it's certainly sweet.
And crashing.

Yes, the crashing is dashing...

But why if the rest of the interface is in some other language, is the error message in english? That Can't be helpfull.

I never got hooked on KDE. It would always be there in the early days of Mandrake, Fedora/RedHat and other distros but I never really liked it for some reason. Does anyone use KDE exclusively for their Linux box? I've always used Gnome and found it to be very stable. Nothing too flashy, low memory use then slap on CompizFusion.

If kde crashes, then I just restart kde (or xorg-x11). Not the whole system. I guess they haven't finished translating all the system messages.

Kde 4.0 is hard masked in Gentoo Linux. I might have to wait for kde 4.1 until I can upgrade to it. Not sure why it is hard masked. But must have something to do with bugs.

Yeah, it's odd.
I never really fancied KDE either. Back in the days of '98 it was the stuff, I remember.
But ever since, I've been on either Fluxbox or Gnome. Seeing this KDE4 makes me want to try it out, though!

I'm still a Windows fan, but c',mon a wee explorer crash would be more interesting if we had a graphical representation like that

...and yes I get explorer crashes quite often in Vista!

Looks nice. I first started using KDE back around the time that it was released, and I thought that it was the greatest Linux interface. For years I continued thinking that, until I started using Ubuntu. I used Ubuntu for a while, and then started using Kubuntu. I used it for a while, and then changed back to Ubuntu.

So now days, it's really tough for me to choose. When I install OpenSUSE and it asks me which interface to use, I sit there and think for a moment. That's really one problem that I have with using Linux. You have two major competing interfaces, each one with their own advantages, but no clear winner between the two.

Rofl at this thread! Second post really haha!

I don't think anybody gonna be happy with any crash eye candy, whatever it looks nice lol.

lol, fair point

Kde 4.1 Beta 1 is out for those how like beta testing stuff.

Most explorer crashes in Vista come from driver conflicts. nVIDIA is the huge culprit on that. On my Intel Core 2 Duo with Intel P35 chipset overclocked to 1600FSB 24/7 I never get crashes at all.

When I ran Vista on my old Asus A8N32-SLI I'd always get crashes, even with newer BIOS updates. I'll never get another nVIDIA chipset again (for motherboards).

It's not only the mainboard chipset but also the graphics driver that crashes often under Vista. My System runs pretty stable too but from time to time it crashes due to problems with the nvidia driver.
And yes... I've already tried different driver versions


I started using Linux with KDE but always found it being a little unstable, slow and unclear. Gnome is somewhat more stable, faster and easier to use. But like most Linux distros they both got their advantages and disadvantages.

I think that kde 4.1 is not that far from being finished.

Never go hooked on it, but prefer it over gnome. Use Xfce mainly, myself.

I really like gnome. I've tried a lot of releases of KDE and just don't like the interface.

I only use KDE on my Gentoo Linux setup. But I have gnome and fluxbox as backup desktop if something messes up. If I can't run any of that it just good old terminal that I have.