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Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

Just Keep Cool-idge
Yeah, I've recently given Mint a go but ended up running into issues with Wine as well. Instead I've opted for Xubuntu, since Xfce offers a pretty close experience to Cinnamon.

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Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

Just Keep Cool-idge

Lysidas posted:

14.10 was just released.

I typically use the development versions of Kubuntu, starting about a month or two after the previous stable release. I've been doing this since Kubuntu 9.something, and for some reason it just never occurred to me to upgrade to the Utopic development branch from Trusty. Kubuntu 14.04 just seems ... complete.

On the other hand, I booted up the Plasma 5 spin of Kubuntu 14.10, and drat. There were a lot of rough edges with Plasma 5 (the libraries/widgets/desktop environment/etc. that will be KDE 5) even up to a few weeks ago, but everything looks fantastic now. I might have to try it out, but I want to make sure that the 3.16 kernel in Utopic doesn't have the btrfs bugs that I've seen described on the btrfs mailing list recently.
I took a peak at Plasma 5 the other day, and as long as all the kinks are worked out, it actually looks pretty good. Easier on the eyes than Plasma 4.

I'm still using Xubuntu 14.04 as the primary OS for my linux desktop though.

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