Maui

Maui boots to a heavily customised desktop that’s probably designed for large displays. On non-FullHD laptop resolutions the icons appear huge which robs the desktop of the polished professional look that you get with some of the other KDE desktops. For example, some of the longer application names are truncated which looks rather unprofessional and disorienting. By default Maui uses the full-screen KDE launcher, which feels much like Gnome 3 Activities and Ubuntu’s Unity. However, like the other distributions, Maui offers three other launchers as well. It relies on Mint’s UpdateManager which makes it fairly straightforward to keep a Maui installation updated. The distribution carries an interesting mix of KDE, non-KDE and proprietary apps and the devs have worked to make sure the non-native apps are integrated into the Plasma desktop.