[tde-users] Re: A question about the different versions.

Unless you already are a regular KDE user and depend on it, I would avoid it if possible, as it tends to mess up or conflict with TDE now and then. The newer KDE 4/5 does not play well with others. However ... when I first installed TDE on Debian, I did install KDE5 and go all through it getting it to work as well as possible (e.g., not to connect to the Internet automatically, to get my settings functional). I had used an Debian installation disc with non-free packages, and KDE Plasma was the default desktop. Since I was new to Debian, and wasn't quite up to installing from a shell and using only TDE, this did make my transition (from Kubuntu to Debian) a little smoother. Nowadays, if I must use another desktop for the installation, then I would say that either the XFCE slim desktop or the MATE desktop are preferable, as they seem to interfere less than KDE. But after that, I use only TDE. Felix Miata has his own method of installing TDE only by a shell, but that takes some dedication and work; I will move in that direction when I can have two working machines in the same location, wherever I am living then. For now, with only one machine, I always just want to get my machine back up and running, and get back to my own work. I hope this helps you to frame your own situation, so that you can decide how to approach installation. After I had done it a few times, though, I could do a fresh installation in my sleep.