On 2 August 2017 at 12:18, Giles Orr <gilesorr@gmail.com> wrote:

This doesn't answer your question. That said, it may be of interest
given your reasons for leaving KDE. There's a group of people who
created a fork of KDE when it went to version 4 because they thought
KDE 3 was better. It's called "Trinity:" http://trinitydesktop.org/

So Trinity is to KDE as Mate is to GNOME ;-).

FOLLOW-UP: it appears that, from here and elsewhere, the widespread advice is not to have a diversity of desktops to be switched between on a single system. Conflicting daemons , etc.

Now the choice is down to "which OS"? I have been recommended the KDE version of Mint over Kubuntu, but my attention has been attracted to something called "KDE Neon". It strikes me as a fascinating twist, as a distribution actually produced and supported by the graphic interface developer. It will get bleeding-edge updates to the UI while the underlying system is conservative.

Does anyone here have any experience with Neon?

- Evan