... we all move to the next LTR which is 18.04, Pearl will support this system up to and through the life of 17.10 using our own repositories without the need to reinstall the system.
We test, on many systems, the current best and most user friendliest software that the big boys usually leave you to pay for. Pearl Linux also maintains them on our own repo or through developers ppa. In short after install you have full featured very stable desktop with nothing extra needed to get to work.