I installed Netrunner 3-4 years ago on an obscure little Gateway laptop I had purchased (LT3101u with 3rd party SSD drive), and the installation, surprisingly, was smooth as silk. The default Netrunner UI is KDE (it's based on KUbuntu), which is also nice (for those who prefer KDE). The install also comes with a rich set of apps.
In those 3-4 years I've continued to be impressed with the reliability and performance of this little sub-netbook (which can be had on eBay for as little as $125).
Netrunner is a good, stable, feature-rich distro.
I looked it up on distrowatch and it says it’s based ob Kubuntu with a customized KDE desktop, extra codec packs, etc. So it sounds a bit like the KDE equivalent of what Mint is to Ubuntu. Is that an accurate statement? Is it using the same Debian package management system as Ubuntu? If so, I might like to try it out.
I usually just install plain Ubuntu as I mostly use Linux for services, and am remoting in via SSH. I don’t spend much time in the GUI. However, it’s fun to tinker around and keep up with the tech.