Re: Caution: may wipe all your KDE3 settings in the process

I don't think these settings are "wiped" as you put it. Just "lost". That is KDE4 will become the default desktop and it wont look for it's settings in the same place as KDE3... The ~/.kde folder should still contain all your settings and if you want to go back, you just need to install the packages for KDE3 and you'll be fine.

Also not sure what the proprietary Intel stuff referred to in the article is...?