Brief: The KDE version of Linux Mint 18.3 that will be released soon will be the last to feature a KDE Plasma Edition. … Another reason for dropping KDE is that Mint team works hard on developing features for tools like Xed, Mintlocale, Blueberry, Slick Greeter but they only work with MATE, Xfce and Cinnamon and not KDE.

Does Linux Mint use KDE?

But starting from Linux Mint 19 Tara, Linux Mint won’t have any more KDE desktop environment edition.So how do we get KDE desktop environment on Linux Mint? Well, you can use Linux Mint 18.3 KDE edition, or you can install KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment on Linux Mint 19 Tara.

Is KDE better than XFCE?

If you want real customization go for KDE. Xfce still has customization, just not as much. Also, with those specs, you will probably want xfce as if you really customize KDE it quickly gets quite heavy. Not as heavy as GNOME, but heavy.