Decided to take another crack at KDE so I installed Linux Mint KDE 17.1 LTS. Not really a backup distro because it’s still Linux Mint. Already decided I wasn’t going to use that stupid KDE wallett but it didn’t ask me if I wanted to use it anyway. Dug a little deeper into settings and found I could configure it to behave just like cinnamons virtual desktops. Also could have the spinning cube. Also found the setting to only show the tasks in the current virtual desktop instead of the default of showing all tasks in each desktop.