I'm currently on Linux Mint 17.3, which is now out of long term support. I've been happy with Linux Mint, but use KDE, which Linux Mint has stopped using/supporting starting with Linux Mint 19. Sites out there indicate that it is still possible to use KDE, so I decided to give it a try on a laptop loaded with Linux Mint 17.3. I went with the Cinnamon edition of Linux Mint 19.2.
Other sites out there indicate that this is possible using a ppa or just using apt to install kubuntu-desktop, kde-plasma-desktop, and kscreen. Both ways just resulted in dependency errors that I could not easily resolve and I did not want to spend the time to work it out. I did find that going to kde-full in the software repository worked, though.
To a point. One item gave an error, but worst of all, something with kwin seems broken (all indications are that it is installed) - the top bar for minimizing, maximizing, and closing a window does not show up. Also as a result of this, you can't move windows around. Rebooting did not fix this.
I don't really want to go to another distribution at this time, so will try playing around with Cinnamon further. I really do not like the menu and hope that I can modify it or somehow go with another menu, but so far, just looking through settings, it does not look possible.
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