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KDE on Windows

Jack.Straw

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Monday, August 21st 2006, 10:27pm

KDE on Windows

Ok, so i've been trying for the last couple weeks to switch to linux. After more hours than i care to count of banging my head against the desk trying to get things to work, i'm calling it quits. In general, applications run much slower. I found it rare that anything just.. worked. I felt like i had to do a funny little dance and jump through several hoops just to get something to work that would have taken a simple double-click on windows. I tried mepis, mandriva, Xandos, and finally fedora. I know this forum is packed with nothing but pro-linux-anti-windows people who don't want to hear this but.. sorry guys, i think in this day and age we shouldn't have to use the command line on a daily basis. This extra security that everyone brags about is little more than requiring a password entry each and everytime you scratch your ass... and, well, because most of the computing world uses windows and thus the viruses/trojans/spyware authors will target that operating system primarily.

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I did really enjoy the KDE feel and would love to run that environment under windows. I've done a little research and found CoLinux, but haven't installed it yet. If i don't intend to use the linux partition at all and only use it to port KDE to Windows, which distribution would you recommend? Are there any "how-to's" around that would assist me in getting the KDE desktop going in windows?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated! And.. sorry for the above rant, but man.. i finally just shut down my linux machine after a day of frustration. I LOVE the open source mentality and wish I could get my system to perform better using linux, as i would love to ditch microsoft all-together. However, i won't give up performance and speed in order to do so..

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Wednesday, August 23rd 2006, 1:24pm

RE: KDE on Windows

Did you try Ubuntu (or the KDE version KUbuntu)? You may find you have some better luck with that. I've never tried Mepis, Xandros or Mandriva, but I hated Fedora. Anything with RPM based package management is bad in my opinion, and I feel the key to an easy to use distribution is package management. Ubuntu's apt-get is a much nicer, faster and easier system. (I, for the record, use Gentoo).

As for getting KDE to run on Windows, I wouldn't have thought this to be possible. It's designed for a UNIX environment and as such would probably require lots of it to be re written (which I doubt you'd want to do by the sound of it). I've certainly never seen or heard anything about it.

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Monday, October 2nd 2006, 7:57am

kde on windows

That's really too bad about your 'troubles' with linux, although if you are looking for an easier (windows-user friendlier) distro, I have to agree that Kubuntu is probably your best bet. They'll even mail you an installer cd/dvd for free if you don't feel up to the whole dload/burn iso/reboot/pray it works ordeal... they are here:
http://www.ubuntu.com
hit the 'shipit' icon on the top right of the screen to get your cd.. it takes about 2 mths to arrive though..
As for KDE on windows it is possible (KDE3.3 anyway) using cygwin, and it's a fairly straight forward install.. although you had said you don't really enjoy the command line interface, you have to do abit of it to actually install/configure/make KDE work on win32.
This page has the installation method (SEE: ReadMe) so you can take a look at what you are in for prior to making any more dents in your desk/walls with your head ;-) :

http://webdev.cegit.de/snapshots/kde-cygwin/kde/kde3.4/

Good Luck.
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