Maui Core

[Fargo]

Before Maui I used Netrunner 14.2 with KDE 4.14. It was a fabulous distro, the best I've ever used in all my Linux days My experience with KDE 4.14 was excellent, everything worked perfectly. A few days ago I coincidentally booted that Netrunner, which I still have on a secondary disk and I had 2 completely contradictive feelings 1st was that it brought good memories of it and how all still worked perfectly. But the 2nd was that it looked so old compared to Maui, the design was visibly older. But it is still an excellent system. Anyway, my experience with Maui is similarly tremendous. Since starting with Maui I've tried Fedora 25, Antergos, Mint 18 and Manjaro just for comparison sake, and the experience was nowhere near Maui. It's astonishing how easily one get's used to when things just work and starts taking it for granted those other distros had all sorts of issues, that Maui doesn't have, at least not for me

I'm on 4.14 right now.  Interestingly I've never felt it was that stable.  Occasionally KDE would reboot on me and I would loose everything I had open.  At some point I got tired of the crashing and I installed xfce on top of it to give xfce a try.  Xfce was more stable but I missed so many features from KDE.  So I started booting back into KDE.  Needless to say xfce brought in a lot of extra stuff so my system is pretty mixed right now.  But overall it still behaves the same.  Its mostly stable but I still get the occasional crash.  But even with all the  themes I've tried, it still looks very dated.  I've also decided that I hate that stock KDE launcher.  I much prefer the more traditional homerun launcher and the new Simple Menu looks amazing I'm really looking forward to that.  I've pretty much decided to give Maui a try.  Now I just need to make the time to back up everything and do the install.  This is a pretty big job since I run my business on this computer.