Sunday, August 12, 2012

Linux Mint 13 KDE Review: Most complete KDE I've seen

Earlier I reviewed Linux Mint 13 "Maya" XFCE and Mate 1.2. Only piece left was the KDE spin. Last week I downloaded the 32-bit KDE Linux Mint from its website. The 960 MB ISO is considerably lighter than the Linux Distros you get to see these days.

From Linux Mint 13 KDE
Boot up in virtualbox was quick. KDE took a bit of time to start, which it normally takes. The desktop is really an artistic spin of KDE, I really liked the aesthetics - which many a times are missing from a lot of Linux OSs.
From Linux Mint 13 KDE
From Linux Mint 13 KDE
From Linux Mint 13 KDE
Applications
Linux Mint is always ahead of rest of the Linux distros in terms of giving out-of-the-box applications. And they have made a hybrid KDE environment here. You get full LibreOffice suite, GIMP, Firefox, VLC, Java, Adobe Flash support, etc. along wth the usual bunch of KDE softwares. Impressive, I must say!

From Linux Mint 13 KDE
From Linux Mint 13 KDE
From Linux Mint 13 KDE
From Linux Mint 13 KDE
Firefox 12 is included by default in the distro, which can be upgraded to the latest Firefox.

CPU & RAM Usage
RAM usage is about 290-300 MB, with only task manager running. Anyway, this is not meant to run on low resource environments.

Overall
I must say, this is the most complete out-of-the-box KDE spin I have seen. You just need to boot it up and without requiring to download hundreds of MBs of updates, you can just get started. Definitely, a distro worth a try.

You can see more screenshots in my Picasa album.


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