I like KDE from a
theoretical point of view: I especially appreciate its philosophy
about flexibility and configuration capabilities. On the other hand,
on the practical side, I never felt comfortable using it even if I
tried
more than once. By the way after reading the recent news
about new KDE “Plasma” version 5 I decided it was worth giving it
a look.
I so downloaded
the “Neon 5 Project” live disk image, based on Kubuntu,
available on KDE site and put it on my USB disk using Ubuntu start-up
disk creator tool.
First impressions
I tested the newly prepared USB disk both on my
desktop computer and on my netbook. KDE worked fine, of course, on
the Veriton desktop but I was surprised to find I worked decently
even on my old EEEPC.
At boot the EEEPC show an error about a Kwin
unexpectedly closing, whatever causes it KDE starts and it seem to
work normally.
the desktop is organized in a very traditional way
with a functional “start” menu on the lower left:
