Simply beautiful

[kdemeoz]

I echo the positive sentiments. After extensively testing Maui for a couple of weeks in various VMs in my Tower's previous OS, i was sufficiently impressed that earlier this week i migrated my Tower from that OS to Maui. It's [mostly] quite lovely.

Pros:

1. Unlike ALL of Mint 18 KDE, KFedora 24, Kubuntu 16.04, & KDE Neon, i was thrilled to discover that Maui continues on with Dolphin's brilliant & extremely handy Root Actions that i instantly loved in KDE4.
   
2. Maui's Plasma 5.7.5 is better than Mint's 5.6.5, & especially Kubuntu's lousy 5.5.5.
   
3. Restore Previous Session kinda sorta works in Maui, but fails in some of the others.
   
4. Maui seems to use the same Update Manager as Mint, which is marvellous. 
   
5. Maui Devs did a nice job of rationalising the grouping of items in Settings Manager. 
   
6. The onboard software selection is pretty good. 
   
7. Basing Maui on Neon not the frozen Kubuntu is a wonderful decision by the Devs.
   

Cons:

1. Restore Previous Session does not yet work completely. I have several Activities, & multiple VDs. Sadly, upon restart, all previously open windows spread across my various Activities & VDs concatenate onto the first VD of the first Activity. That's better than nothing, but clearly still not correct.
   
2. In Mint KDE i was a heavy user of multiple Desktop Effects [why bother using KDE at all, otherwise?], so i'm pretty familiar with them. KWin was certainly not 100% reliable in Mint KDE4, but it was still pretty good overall. Sadly in Maui, since i installed it "for real" on my SSD [instead of just in VB VMs, which cannot test those Effects given no 3D Acceleration], Plasmashell very frequently crashes. It's terribly disappointing & actually annoying. I really hope it gets fixed in an imminent update.
   
3. The current Maui x64 ISO has a defective Ubiquity Installer. If you choose to encrypt /home during installation, you cannot use the system subsequently [black screen]. A repaired installer was uploaded to the Repos, & must be used during installation, to avoid this serious fault. It then works well.
   
4. The ISO & Checksum files are not PGP-signed yet.
   
5. Initially getting my VPN to work was tricky, but i eventually solved it by installing network-manager-openvpn-gnome. Devs should IMO ensure future ISOs include that.
   

My overall feeling so far is that Maui is a very nice implementation of Plasma5, albeit clearly still needs more work... especially the plasmashell stability. 

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NB - NB - NB --- UPDATE CORRECTION:
Con#2 now is half-deleted, as is "overall feeling". Major improvement now active, per https://forums.mauilinux.org/showthread....9#pid39439