I think he likes Mageia!
Final Verdict
I have not used any other KDE distro as smooth as Mageia 2 and it is the BEST KDE distro of the year, to me. It is closely followed by ROSA Marathon and Linux Mint 14 KDE. ROSA Marathon looks out of the world and Mint 14 is truly an amazing distro, typical Mint, which works on almost every system I tried. Since I won't recommend to install a KDE distro on a low powered machine, my final rankings consist of assessment on the Core i3 laptop primarily. So, my top 5 KDE spins of the year are:
1. Mageia 2 - very resource efficient and good looking distro
2. Linux Mint 13 & 14 - Is more stable than Mageia and performs really well, works on any kind of system
3. ROSA 2012 Marathon - Looks the best and performs reasonably
4. Kororaa 17/Fedora 17 - Delivers one of the best performances and looks reasonably good
5. Sabayon 10 - Amazing aesthetics and very good performance, stability may be an issue
5. PCLinuxOS - Very stable and has the richest out of the box applications but slow to receive updates
http://mylinuxexplore.blogspot.com/2012 ... on-of.html