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You mentioned kinfocenter, and that is indeed one of the strengths of the KDE desktop, as i think it offers more means of configuration.

I think they ought to put kinfocenter in the 'system settings' wrapper. I know that the first time I went looking for it in Fedora 12, I thought it had been deleted or something! That would have teed me off because I like the way it gathers everything and presents it in one place.

Have you checked out some of the 'ls*' commands? I had to install a couple of them through yum after I'd built my system but they are extremely powerful for identifying hardware and other things.

lshw - shows you more stuff about your hardware than you can shake a stick at. Kinda hard to read if you're not a techie though.
lscpu - shows basic info about the cpu
lshal - lists hal information and devices (never have really had need for this though)
lspci - shows all PCI devices. This is useful when attempting to work through networking (wireless) issues
lsusb - shows all USB devices

Yeah, it's all command-line stuff, but the detail that these programs produce is more than the average person can handle anyway, although if you read through the output, most of it does make a bit of sense.

BTW: have you tried using the 'fish://' protocol in Dolphin? When I first discovered the fish: protocol, I thought it was the best thing since sliced bread, because of how easy it makes it to move files from one computer to another.

Regarding voice commands: I'd much rather have a DWIMNWIS (Do What I Mean, Not What I Say) interface. Would save me a bit of trouble from time to time.

Thanks for the commands; they all work except lshw (not found). But I do not know how to do the ‘fish://’ protocol in Dolphin.

“I’d much rather have a DWIMNWIS (Do What I Mean, Not What I Say) interface.”

Due to man’s vast ability to verbally communicate it would require lots of programming for a computer to understand him.

I have a copy of Fedora 10, maybe i will try it and upgrade it to 13.