Hi,

I come from Linux Mint; have been using it for 7 years now as my main distro; lately, Mint 18 Cinnamon. Very stable indeed; gives peace of mind. Yet from now and then I like to test KDE distros... (I like it a bit better than Cinnamon). Tested Mint KDE... unstable. Tested Manjaro, and yes, is indeed faster, yet at least on my Hardware configuration, was costly to have it finally tuned. After a couple of months, I decided to drop it, due to issues with the Software installer / Manager.
Then I'm trying KDE Neon; took much less to have it fine tuned for my hardware; I have been working with it for 2 weeks now, and had not to return (so far) back to Mint. There are couple of glitches yet: Dolphin crashes on searching for files; work around, installed Nemo and its fine. Discover crashes from time to time; workaround, I use Synaptic. Banshee crashes when importing music files from directory; workaround, Clementine (with very small fonts tough).

So, I'm enjoying Neon so far; this forum has been very supportive. Thank you Neon Community ! I'll keep going.

Update (Apr 22 17): more than a month only using Neon... now my official desktop OS; Saying goodbye to Mint by now

Hi,
Yes, Cinnamon is okay but it still has some missing features:
1. No desktop grid
2. No way to make the title bars transparent
3. No way to make the close window button wider than the rest (metacity?)
4. ...
Otherwise a good desktop. It's just that KDE is more capable at the moment. I would love "by default" support for Emerald theming though. Smaragd is perfectly capable of running Emerald theming on Neon but not by default. Aurorae is okay but it's a bit resource-intensive.

If you are having a problem with fonts you may want to try installing the (dare I say it) Microsoft fonts- I think that's what fixed it (it gets installed along with PlayOnLinux and Wine and I installed a lot of other things at the time)

apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer

That made Chromium look MUCH better and my Clementine is fine at 2560x1600.

I've been using Linux Mint KDE / Kubuntu / Fedora KDE etc. for quite a few years, tried neon about a year ago and it didn't work for me, but the 20170420 snapshot seems (couple of days) to be a champ. Responsive, looks good, hasn't crashed yet (something died on logout a few times but that seems to have stopped now for some reason).

I've also tried all KDE flavours for the past 7+ years, and switched from Manjaro to KDE Neon for more than a year now. I Got tired of breaking down after an update! I have installed KDE neon on all my computers, including work computers in my office. How ever I must say that I like the LTS version better, because of more reliability, especially with encrypted hard drive. As far as KDE flavor, KDE neon is the BEST.... Up-to-date software, new iso's almost twice a month. Thanks to developers, and everyone involved with this fantastic operating system.