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Arch linux x86-64 with KDE 4.9.1 and kernel 3.5.3-1

I installed it yesterday and i've encountered no problems so far. Hopefully the rest of KDE 4.8 will arrive soon in the experimental repository.

The weak point of the machine is the graphics card. It's on board and weak.

So this means yes

It's nice machine, i hope you put it to good use

I never was that interested in Trinity but after reading this blog post by Martin Graesslin i doubt i'll ever try it - http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2012/02/having-a-look-at-the-oldnew-desktop-environments/ . I'm currently using KDE 4 and i'm very happy with it. If my hardware was not fast e...

I'm not sure that i agree. Debian's default desktop is GNOME and on my old desktop PC (Athlon XP 2200+, 512 MB RAM, NVidia FX 5200) Debian 6 with GNOME was just slow. On I am "P III with 256 ram ( I use 512 mb as swap )" i bet it would be too slow. I'm talking about the default install of ...

mslinux, i think you are using your computer wrong.

You can also use the normal mplayer. If you configure it through its text configuration file it should be OK. You'll only need to learn several keyboard shortcuts which are the same for the mplayer gui anyway.

Up until GNOME 3 came out i used GNOME. The GNOME 2.x series was the best desktop environment for me. While some found its configuration options somewhat limited, it had all the configuration options for me and all the functionalities i need (and then some more). Also it was very fast on my system a...

Even now, I really like KDE 4.6, but hell no I am not going to use it between now and 5.0, BECAUSE I ALREADY KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN KDE HITS 5.0, JUST LIKE WE ALREADY KNEW WHAT WOULD HAPPEN WITH GNOME 3.0!

Supposedly the 4.x-5.x transition will be a lot smoother than the 3.x-4.x one.

I don't use either of those plugins, so I can't say. I try to keep the plugins to a minimum since the netbook is underpowered. There was a Rhythmbox update this weekend, so maybe some of your problems have been addressed. I noticed the problem with the lyrics plugin soon after Squeeze was released....

Since i see that you are using Rhythmbox i'd like to ask you if are having any problems with the lyrics and context pane plugins.

It seems to be working fine for now.

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Downloading as i write, what could possibly go wrong

I don't know, it works for me...

Yes it seems to work fine. I'm using the 64 bit flash player, downloaded from Adobe's website.

I think the changes mainly have to do with where testing is. For example around when Squeeze was released, my unstable laptop had almost exactly the same packages as my stable desktop. So if testing is frozen, I don't think bigger changes get into unstable. (this is my guess anyways) I think that t...

Sometimes the Debian developers wait until KDE has settled down. Based on kubuntu, 4.7 brought in some big changes (kmail2) and lots of people including me have had some major problems (my kubuntu laptop would spiral into an akonadi process linked to kmail2 which consumed my entire swap space, cras...

With the xorg and the nvidia drivers from Unstable everything seems to be fine at last. I'm using Debian Unstable with KDE 4.6.5.

I wouldn't try that. Installing packages from Ubuntu and not just several packages but an entire set of packages like KDE is asking for trouble.

Historically Linux has supported whatever it can - that is, unless there has been some specific legal reason, linux has supported whatever it technically can. Even now linux is one of the operating systems that support the most diverse hardware. So i think that if support for UEFI in Linux is possib...