I am running Mageia 6 on my other computer to see if it will satisfy my needs for control and stability.
I know that folks on this forum are not enamored of Mageia, but it seems to be fairly stable, and it is definitely KDE Plasma based. I have had to overcome some minor glitches to get all my tools running on Mageia 6, but so far it is all working. I have not run into any show-stopper problems (yet). The folks who put out Mageia are fairly old-school, and do not jump on the bandwagon to throw out all the old stuff for shiny new toys.
For example, I like the fact that Mageia still has a real root account. They do implement sudo, but you aren't forced to use it, and you can still log into root to do maintenance. Root is its own account, not the first regular user that you create during installation. Don't ask me what I think of sudo, you might get a rant.
I have been using Mandrake/Mandriva/Mageia long enough now that I know where stuff is. It feels like home. So, while I like Mint, once they drop KDE I am moving toward going back to Mageia.
I moved to Mint because I was having issues with the tools in Mageia 5 that I could not get resolved. But now I am having more serious issues with Mint than I am with Mageia 6. For example, on Mint krunner still crashes when I type into it. That isn't a show-stopper, but it is certainly annoying. I am unable to fix it or find a good workaround. It works fine on Mageia 6. The issues I was having on Mageia 5 seem to be resolved in Mageia 6.
As an aside, here is my OS protocol that I have adopted since 2003
- Dump fnWindows permanently.
- Run Linux as long as it works for me.
- When Linux no longer works for me, look at Apple products.
- When Apple products will not work for me, go off the grid.
Banjo
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If only the best bird sang, the forest would be a very quiet place.