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Mandriva generally tends to actually install well and run well on ~anything I have tried it on, as well as having decent admin GUI tools.
Ubuntu and to a lesser extent Fedora fail miserably on both counts in my experience.
(same for ~all the Ubuntu and Fedora derived dists)

(Sorry, not intended as flamebait, just my experience from MANY years of trying)

Having said that, I suspect the only QA/usability testers on this release have been running KDE4 since first alpha...

Now if I can just find a decent tutorial on KDE4.1 so I can figure out WTF the KDE guys were thinking...
It IS fast, LOOKS great, but should really run a tutorial on startup, as it's ~nonobvious how it's supposed to be used efficiently.

Dolphin can't even (click on) run an executable or open a shell in current dir as configured, and I have yet to figure out the point of the very limited (but neat looking) "desktop" sub window thing.
Konqueror also isn't set up as a usable file manager (as confgured)

Amarok 2 beta can no longer "save as" bookmarks to an external file... Took a bit of poking to get it to work, sorta. It will no longer just load and play an m3u file apparently, although the system fires off Amarok properly, it just... sits there.

Greg

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"Amarok 2 beta can no longer "save as" bookmarks to an external file... "
Correction--- Said bookmarks, meant to say it can't save playlists to an external file anymore. It does seem to manage multiple playlists internally.

Konsole is missing some of its old bling, transparent window option no longer happening. Works fine.

Can't seem to move around items on the "panel" (or whatever it's called now), and adding applications is a PITA requiring perfect aim.

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http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/FAQ#Introduction goes a long way explaining KDE4s ways.

Otherwise, 2009.0 has Just Worked on 3 of 3 random systems I tried it on today.

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