27th November 2017, 1:32
Hi all. I loved Maui from the moment i tried it last year. Sadly 17.06 was a disappointment for me, so i moved on in June this year, to openSUSE Tumbleweed. Its Plasma5 performance is wonderful, & i'm very pleased to have given myself the [very big] learning curve needed to come to terms with a non Debian-based distro [my first]. However i confess to feeling a sense of ongoing nervousness about potentially borking my system [its repos management & system updates are slightly trepidatious for me]. My Tower still runs TW KDE & is still [touch wood] giving me a fabbo Plasma5 experience, but i've very recently moved Lappy on again. After a brief, intense & rapidly disastrous experiment with KDE Neon on it [excellent in my detailed preliminary testing in a Tower VM, excellent on Lappy running Live from USB, horrible horrible blah once i'd installed it fully configured & loaded it up with my stuff, then it went bananas], yesterday i put Manjaro KDE on it [having first intensively tested it in another Tower VM]. I am really impressed with it.
Summary: The demise of Maui is very sad, but if anyone's interested, you could do worse than have a look at Manjaro KDE.
Summary: The demise of Maui is very sad, but if anyone's interested, you could do worse than have a look at Manjaro KDE.