Giving KDE 4.2 a try on my Arch Linux Desktop

Well, it has been over a year since I made the move to the Gnome Desktop.  I was not happy happy with KDE 4 and ended up dumping it.  I thought the KDE Developers were crazy for making too many innovations.  It was too buggy and took a lot of resources to run it.

Now KDE 4.2 is available and I am hearing a lot of good praises.  Tony(saigonlinux) runs it on openSUSE and gave me a demonstration last Thursday.  I was very impressed.  As a former KDE user 5 years, I decided that I will give it a try this week.

Currently I am running the Gnome Desktop on my Arch Linux desktop.  The Arch Linux developers are well known for their stable packages and sure enough KDE 4.2 was available.  Tomorrow I plan to make the switch for a couple days to see how I like KDE 4.2.

Don't get me wrong, the Gnome desktop is nice but I find myself prefering KDE applications over Gnome (k3b, kaffeine, amarok, etc.).  Pidgin is nice but I really prefer Kopete.  The list goes on and on.  It is just a preference thing.

I will let you guys know what happens.

(KDE 4.2 Desktop - Source: KDE)