Ever since I first ran into Linux Mint over a year ago, I've been enamored by it's elegant simplicity, rock solid stability, good hardware support, and excellent user experience. This distribution has continued to impress me time and again, and has really become my number one recommended distro, actually displacing PcLinuxOS in the top slot, for favorite new user friendly distributions.

Up until now, Linux Mint has done nothing but go up, and up, and up. But as with anything that goes up, eventually it must come down. So, does Mint continue to impress with it's new KDE version, or does it start the slow and gradual treck back down? (note, Mint 5 standard got glowing reviews, so it shouldn't be too hard for the KDE edition, right? Maybe. Read on to see.)

Live CD

Initial bootup of the LiveCD was pretty standard, with all elements booting as they should. The system booted to the desktop fairly quickly and gave me a desktop that looked beautiful and ran well. The first time I tested it out I got a weird video error (that was a hardware fault on my end) and ended up with a blaze orange desktop. The kind that will burn your eyeballs out of your skull. That was nothing that was the fault of Mint obviously, but ultimately turned out to be my hardware. It did scare me though, as I thought for a bit that Mint KDE had gone to the dark side of pain or something.

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