After reading rave reviews of KDE 4.10 I was tempted to install it. I had one mint 13 VM and some kind souls have already published instructions to pull the required packages from Kubuntu repository (all hail the mighty Internet :D )
The install was rather painless and 3D support also worked without a hitch :) what surprised me most is the fact that how polished the latest KDE desktop looks! ( I have rather fond memories of my KDE 1.0 desktop).
Polished is the right word. The only pain on eyes could be some strange looking icons. Performance wise, it works fine on my 1 GB VM. There are some niggles that I would rather put to my limited RAM.
I do not hate Gnome 3.6 with a passion but they have clearly taken a more tablet oriented route while people on desktop have been left to work with ugly extensions. The last panel extension I had was so ugly that finally I switched to tint2 for a panel + dock.
So It was a nice change to see an integrated nice looking dock and an icon for showing desktop. Customization were easy and I was able to make whatever changes I wanted without reading manuals. So for a moment I am sticking to KDE as desktop of choice on Linux.
