KDE 4.3 has beenKDE 4.3 released, and on the same day, the Arch Linux repos have been updated! Amazing Downloading it right now...will review the new features soon after.

Something that also came as a surprise to me was how the packages are now. They are now modular! What happened to "keeping it pure" and the same as upstream? Oh well, I'm not complaining

I have made a tutorial on setting up ALSA. It is much more simple than the one in the Arch Linux wiki. Hope you like it!

KDE 4.0: From this...I have been using KDE 4 even before it was a golden release. I started using it when KDE 4.0 was in the betas. I was impressed with it, especially plasma, even though it was extremely limited. You couldn't move the widgets around it, you couldn't change the size...it was a big giant panel fixed to the bottom of the screen. There wasn't even a native Kontact program! When KDE 4.0 was released, people complained saying it should have waited six more months.

Recently I have jumped off the Arch ship and back to the Ubuntu one. I thought it would be a lot better. No configuration files to edit all the time, nice and stable, fast boot times (for me 30 sec) and a working Compiz Fusion that doesn't give me a hard crash.

Today I wanted to get a distro on my freshly (ish) build computer gathering dust because it refused to work with Ubuntu, Windows, Arch or many other distros I threw at it. They all hated the wireless, which advertised being compatible with Linux. It even had a picture of Tux on it! Not very common..

I have been slowly drifting away from Arch Linux. It's a great distro, but I dislike having to set it up manually and it has lots of stability issues. I won't be removing my tutorials though Every time I try out a distro that works on my computer, I'll review it. If it's good enough, I may even start making tutorials for that distro.

Well it looks like I'm looking for a similar distro that someone is looking for on the Ubuntu Forums. So I'll be keeping an eye on that thread.

I've been using Debian testing for a while, and here's what I have to say about it

Debian testing

Advantages

• Plenty of packages in the repos
• apt is very fast
• Uses sudo as default if you tell it to
• No need to edit any configuration files
• Modular KDE
• Flash works on 64bit!

Disadvantages

• No AUR or anything similar so I have to compile packages the old fashioned way (./configure, make, make install)