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Netrunner becoming Maui is kind of a merger, at least in the sense that the distro landscape was defragmented a bit. Like Hawaii, Maui was Pier Luigi Fiorini's project. It seems he handed over the Maui brand to Blue Systems. He is continuing in Liri's team.

Here is the old Maui site: http://www.maui-project.org/

Yes, they did.

They have for years now been sponsored by Blue Systems, who is also one of the main sponsors (maybe The main sponsor) of KDE.

Blue Systems also produces Netrunner (Kubuntu Based) and Netrunner Rolling (Manjaro based) KDE distros.

Until Plasma 5.4 on Antergos, I consistently had my best KDE experiences using Netrunner variants, FWIW.

Yep I struggled with this as it's about the KDE applications. As many times they are more matured robust and feature rich.

From the all powerful Dolphin to Krunner. K3b for CD/DVD burning. Okular top of the list for PDF's and does Graphic Novels/Comics. Kate great editor and Konsole is hard to beat for a terminal.

Switching 4 Virtual workspaces with a simple mouse wheel makes for fast switching desktops. To useful plasmoids that can integrate into panel or lay out on desktop.

Also added a Huion H610 graphics tablet for Krita couple of years back. So back then bit the bullet and moved to Plasma 5.

As the old FUD shouting was wrong about it being Bloated & Resource Hog. As mine whether KDE4 or Plasma 5 chimed into desktop 400mb-450mb.

A lot lighter than Unity,Cinnamon or Gnome on my setup. And great experience in using with powerful Krunner and keyboard shortcuts.

And as mentioned it's better to use a desktop that fulfills your needs than going with one you like for the visual or popular culture everyone else I hang with.

And yep running with Manjaro Netrunner as more customized less installed apps compared to regular Manjaro KDE flavor. http://www.netrunner.com/

Has it's own Netrunner forums http://forums.netrunner.com/index.php but also interact just as much in regular Manjaro forums. https://forum.manjaro.org/

A lot of folks are saying this is due to the transition to Plasma 5, and I think they are right, but this doesn't mean you'll have the same problems with KDE on any distro.

If you aren't aware, KDE has done a major rewrite of their Desktop environment during the past year, and there are still some rough edges.

Having said that, on other distros (Antergos, specifically) I have found Plasma 5 to be very well behaved at version 5.4, and it was not bad at all at 5.3. (5.3 is what Kubuntu has.)

The irony is that KDE seems to be where many Windows users gravitate, but it's also the one that gets criticized for having a confusing array of configurable options, plus it's the one experiencing some growing pains at the moment.

I wouldn't recommend Antergos (or the method I used to get 5.4 on it) to a noob, but my question to you is - you say it's been nothing but trouble - do you want a recommendation for another DE or distro to try, or do you want help fixing the problem in your OP and the other problems you are having?

Personally, I have had much better luck with the Netrunner Kubuntu variant than with actual Kubuntu in the last couple of years.

http://www.netrunner.com/

Netrunner is the sleekest experience I've had out of the box. Elementary looks more like MacOS, but Netrunner feels like MacOS in that from the moment you install, it's already configured in a great way. I think that's where you'll find the best newbie Linux experience.

I use Netrunner rolling which is a Manjaro flavor. http://www.netrunner.com/

What I like about arch-based is keeping up to date with latest applications versions. And then there is the powerful Aur: which has saved my bacon for that occasional application that wasn't in the main repo's.

Also great with Manjaro is the simplicity Gui for proprietary drivers and kernel versions with Manjaro Settings. Great community and many community based flavors running the gambit.

Opensuse was always a struggle with wifi/networks for me so gave up. Fedora seems aimed more at IT/Dev's kind of framework which isn't for me. And Fedora has always been a nightmare trying to install for me. So also gave up on it.

Been Manjaro Netrunner for me for 3 years now and don't see myself moving anytime soon. Tho there are the Main Manjaro flavors that are also great. From KDE,Xfce to Gnome and Deepin to Budgie,i3 titling managers. It's all great.

Good Luck hope you find what works for you.

Latest Netrunner rolling iso has removed Pim and disabled search baloo by default. http://www.netrunner.com/netrunner-rolling-2016-01-released/

>We’ve decided not to ship akonadi and the KDE PIM suite default with this release in favor of more lightweight alternatives.

Tho may be a few packages to uninstall still. Printers,Bluetooth,Virtualbox,etc.. There is also a Manjaro Net-install where you pick what to install. Tho requires more work on part of the user.

But see late that you don't want to do arch then I guess?

Yep since I have older desktop with no Blutetooth,Printer,Scanner I also uninstall those items.

Check processes running to determine if you really need them running. Didn't make sense to have cups or bluetooth services when I don't have those on my hardware.

Finally Netrunner Rolling caught on and new ISO doesn't have the PIM or akonadi stuff by default.

http://www.netrunner.com/netrunner-rolling-2016-01-released/

Which is nice I don't need a To Desktop same near Ram usage as my Win7 side. As was getting close to to that.

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>So this is the solution to every Linux problem

It's not a problem. You have to find your niche. There is a Linux distro made for each one of us. You just have to find yours. There are 289 active Linux distro's at this moment.

I been using Linux for 14 years. Debian and Debian base distro's are the ones I been using. Currently using MX-16 Debian(jessie) Xfce.

If you like KDE and you couldn't get along with openSUSE. Then I would suggest to try out Netrunner then. http://www.netrunner.com/

I like openSUSE KDE. But, I used Leap instead of Tumbleweed.

Netrunner comes with Steam and Skype installed by default, can't remember if Wine/PoL was also installed by default. It is KDE based distro so has the same familiar Windows layout (launcher in bottom left, task bar at bottom, system tray bottom right etc).

Used to use it as my default distro and it was pretty great. Ended up switching to Arch though because upgrading between major releases of Netrunner always broke my system.

I had used Netrunner in the past and it was using KDE as it's Desktop Environment. I never had any screen tearing there either. That was about 3 years ago when I was using Netrunner as my primary OS. But, on the other hand I don't think it was using Kwin.

http://www.netrunner.com/

>Maybe I could tweak KDE to be fast on my system but I guess I am just lazy

Most the time it's just as simple as updating your graphic card and you then have your speed.

Try out Netrunner. So far my favorite KDE DE distro.

http://www.netrunner.com/

Instead running Linux off a external. Why not pop in another internal SSD and install Linux on that. It will be faster then going though a USB cord.

Don't worry about separated partitions. Just let Linux do all that for you. Just choose whole hard drive. Just make sure it's the correct hard drive. Me I always disconnect my other hard drive while doing this. That way you can't make any mistakes. Reboot; update and start making your personal settings. After everything is OK. Then reconnect your Windows hard drive. Have Linux to boot first. Update Grub and then from there you should have two choices to boot into either Windows or Linux. If you like the KDE look, try out Netrunner. http://www.netrunner.com/

Just download a distro, put it on a usb or dvd and boot it up! Most distro will run a live enviroment. It won't change anything on your computer and you can see if you like it before you install it. There will be a "install" icon on the desktop. This whole process takes less than 30 minutes depending on your download speeds. Do it today!

I think Netrunner is a nice choice. Download links

edit: It's an ubuntu derivative, just like Mint

>For KDE, I would actually steer clear of Kubuntu. Ubuntu repos don't have the latest KDE and I've heard that it's quite buggy. I would tend to go for Arch(try Antergos or Manjaro for a live usb or easy install) or OpenSUSE Tumbleweed to have the latest releases of KDE.

Netrunner is another great option for those wanting to try KDE, especially if you want something based on Ubuntu. It is Kubuntu based but they've greatly improved upon it imho. They also have an Arch/Manjaro based rolling distro but I'd rather use Antergos if I was going for something downstream from Arch.

NetRunner does include some non-FOSS software like Skype and Steam pre-installed, so it wouldn't be an option for someone avoiding closed software.

Plasma 5 being so new and ever changing platform. Would stick with a Official Plasma spin.

Like Kubuntu,Manjaro,etc.. than a generic Debian base on Testing branch.

Netrunner 17 (Horizon) Kubuntu/Debian-compatible Plasma 5.4.3 upgrades to 5.5.2 as of today.

Netrunner Rolling Arch/Manjaro-compatible http://www.netrunner.com/download/

Manjaro 15.12 (Capella) https://manjaro.github.io/Manjaro-15.12-released/

Or Ubuntu's Kubuntu. As the ever changing Plasma 5 seems to be more problematic on generic Debian Testing platform.

As on my Netrunner Rolling based on Manjaro/Arch. Went from 5.4,Then 5.5.0,5.5.1 and today 5.5.2. just this month All updates fixing issues present in plasma.

Case in point 5.5 was released on Dec. 8th and now 3 weeks later and your still on 5.4. And 5.5 fixed a ton of issues.

I don't see Debian general as a good base for something evolving that fast. As use to run SolydXK based on Debian testing. And it's not even keeping up current.

Yep there is multiple flavors of Netrunner

http://www.netrunner.com/download/

Netrunner 17 (Horizon) Kubuntu/Debian-compatible version Plasma 5.4.3

Netrunner 14.2 LTS (Frontier) Kubuntu/Debian-compatible version Long-Term-Supported (24 months) KDE 4.14 LTS

And the one I use is arch-based rolling.

Netrunner Rolling

Arch/Manjaro-compatible 64bit: Rolling 2015.11 with Plasma 5.4.2 32bit: Rolling 2015.09 with Plasma 5.4.1

I don't think any distro is going to give a 100% trouble-free experience. Due to the state and nature of Plasma 5 constantly changing and evolving.

But only had a couple of annoyances with running Netrunner rolling arch version. Sorry can't comment on the Ubuntu versions as haven't used them.

Check out the Manjaro forums https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php or Netrunner Forums http://forums.netrunner.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=33

For more info and experiences. Many times stability or issues come down to specific hardware setups.

Tho the best experiences and fast fixes of issues that I have read seem to be with the rolling versions.

I'm currently using Netrunner 16 – Ozymandias as my primary OS.

http://www.netrunner.com

By the way. This too is a great OS for beginners if your laptop isn't too old. KDE Desktop Environment is a little heavy on resources.

I like Mint better over Ubuntu. Because Mint has a lot of necessaries preinstall like the importance of codecs. As Ubuntu you have to install them yourself. Mint's look and feel is better in my opinion also.

Well when considering KDE to review check out newly released Netrunner Iso.

http://www.netrunner.com/release-rolling-2015-09/

Linux Kernel 4.1.9

Plasma 5.4.1

Frameworks 5.14 (using Qt5.5)

KDE Applications 15.08.1

LibreOffice 5

Virtualbox 5

Kontact 5

Firefox 41.0

Thunderbird 38.3

Gmusicbrowser 1.15

VLC 2.2.1

Cheese 3.16

and many more…

Just installed the newly released Plasma 5.

Based on Manjaro Arch rolling with Octopi and Aur gets you closest to bleeding edge apps.

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I'm not saying we should be sharpening our pitchforks, but they lost their Canonical sponsorship.

They have for years now been sponsored by Blue Systems, who is also one of the main sponsors (maybe The main sponsor) of KDE.

Blue Systems also produces Netrunner (Kubuntu Based) and Netrunner Rolling (Manjaro based) KDE distros.

Until Plasma 5.4 on Antergos, I consistently had my best KDE experiences using Netrunner variants, FWIW.