KDE is the main desktop of this flavor, although we find other Linux Mint tools such an updated Update Manager that improves the management of installations in the flavor, Mint Welcome that serves as a starting guide for novice users or Mint USB, a creator of installable USB's or pen drive formatter. In this case the flavor has Plasma 5.6 and with Linux kernel 4.4, LTS kernel that will give us, along with the base of the distribution, support until 2021. Linux Mint 18 KDE Edition is based on Ubuntu LTS 16.04, as well as the main version and the rest of the official flavors of Linux Mint. Linux Mint 18 KDE Edition comes out a month late compared to its official brother, Linux Mint 18 XFCE Edition, but the wait is worth it because it will be a distribution that have Plasma 5.6 as well as a repository that will update the desktop without having serious problems with the distribution. This official flavor of Linux Mint arrives late compared to the rest of the distributions due to the problems they have had with the desktop and with the startup manager, although we can say that it is already available for installation or update, whichever we prefer. In the last few days the Linux Mint team has introduced us the eager Linux Mint 18 KDE Edition distribution.
