Besides Linux Mint, Kubuntu Linux is one of my personal favorite Linux Distributions "For Linux On The Desktop". I've been working with Linux for about 8 years now and I'm just a bit tired of making things work for my desktop on Linux. Ubuntu based systems in General takes good care of that for me.. But KDE does even a better job with Eye Candy effects for your background to total integration of you office with Kontact, Koffice, Amarok and the other KDE/QT based applications.