De blog van Linux Mint lees ik niet altijd even snel, en vermoedelijk zal ik niet de enige zijn. Maar in de afgelopen blog staat het volgende.
"In continuation with what’s been done in the past, Linux Mint 18.3 will feature a KDE edition, but it will be the last release to do so.
I would like to thank Kubuntu for the amazing work they have done. The quality of Plasma 5 in Xenial made backports a necessity. The rapid pace of development upstream from the KDE project made this very challenging, yet they managed to provide a stable flow of updates for us and we were able to ship good KDE editions thanks to that. I don’t think this would have been possible without them.
KDE is a fantastic environment but it’s also a different world, one which evolves away from us and away from everything we focus on. Their apps, their ecosystem and the QT toolkit which is central there have very little in common with what we’re working on."
Kortom het is (te) veel werk en drijft steeds verder weg van waar Mint zich op focust.
Jammer, voor een KDE distro was dit best een goede te noemen.