One of my workstations is Kubuntu 14.04. It looks amazing out of the box, but you have to turn the bling off to actually use it (I don't really need a bright bl

One of my workstations is Kubuntu 14.04. It looks amazing out of the box, but you have to turn the bling off to actually use it (I don't really need a bright blue shadow around the active window, for example). I really like it's old-school configurability, but you're right - it's way too buggy. Lots of little things that add up, and include freezes where I have to kill the plasma-desktop and restart it - how a non-techie is supposed to survive this, I don't know. I really like the configurability (gnome3 went in the opposite direction and declared that configurability was evil), but I think you nailed it with 'designed for screenshots'...