I’m thinking smartly about the future.

Look, I know it sucks for your favourite Desktop Environment’s favourite customisation to be discontinued, but honestly this is for the best. What would you rather have, Feren OS Classic dead now so that it is at least still memorable for being a good customisation of Cinnamon with a lot of unique traits to it, or a Mint reskin? The way Cinnamon is going in recent time means that if Feren OS Classic kept being maintained by me then it would very likely dwindle so much 3rd-party-support and flexibility wise that it’d risk becoming just a forgettable Linux Mint reskin because of the fact there would not be much left to use to make Feren OS Classic unique anymore (while keeping it stable).

You want to see what I mean on a large scale? Try out Feren OS 2016.2 Update 2 and then compare it to the Feren OS Classic of today. Try using both and looking at their flexibility, then you’ll realise Cinnamon has gone on a slow downward slope over the years. I wish it didn’t ever have to come to that, but I can’t do much about that now… only the community can stop Cinnamon from going down said downward slope now.

The community is the lifeblood of Feren OS Classic’s unique-ness, and it’s dwindling in the world of Cinnamon...

All of these decisions, including the switch to KDE Plasma, were all chosen by the Feren OS Community. If you find Plasma complicated, fine — go into Desktop Layout, choose a layout you want to use, go into Global Theme, choose a theme you want to use and stick with it, and just get up to your normal workflow.

KDE Plasma isn’t merely just a DE that’s there to be themed, no, it’s actually a daily workstation desktop environment that is simple for people when they just want to use it for their daily work, and only ever powerful when required by people, who want to master the Plasma Desktop and truly make it their own, to be.