I used both, liked Cinnamon better
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| Author | Content |
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| cmost Jun 02, 2012 2:12 PM EDT |
I was always a fan of Gnome 2.x. When Gnome 3.x emerged, I ran screaming for my nearest KDE 4.x desktop. I was a long-time KDE user back in the KDE 3.x days and then fled, ironically, to Gnome 2.x when the first iterations of KDE 4 emerged. When my trusty three year old Sabayon desktop started to give me fits (due to Gnome 3.x bits interfering with my GTK apps) I decided to go back to Linux Mint since they had released LMDE and I cut my teeth on Debian distributions and since Update Pack 4 had just coincidentally emerged which brought both Cinnamon 1.4 and Mate 1.2 to the LMDE desktop (along with, blessedly, MDM instead of the horrid GDM3). Being a tried and true Gnome 2.x fan, I immediately wet to MATE. I loved it! It's our old friend Gnome fully up to date and humming right along. After a few days, however, my curiosity got the better of me and I logged into Cinnamon! Immediately fell in love. It's like Gnome 2.x brought into the modern age. It's fast, friendly, and gives no indication whatsoever of it's Gnome 3.x foundation, which is a blessing! After adding a few Cinnamon repositories and installing a pretty white themes and some useful extensions, I have a powerful new, professional desktop that's as friendly as Gnome 2.x ever was and works like a workstation, not a tablet. I recommend everyone who was a Gnome 2.x fan to give both a try and decide for yourself. But, don't dismiss Cinnamon out of hand just because it's built atop Gnome 3.x. |
| Koriel Jun 02, 2012 6:03 PM EDT |
Neither Xfce 4.10 running on Linux Mint 13 its d@mn fine. |
| tracyanne Jun 02, 2012 6:17 PM EDT |
waiting for LinuxMint KDE. |
| Fettoosh Jun 02, 2012 6:21 PM EDT |
Quoting:waiting for LinuxMint KDE. Is that still going to happen now Kubuntu is being sponsored by the same group? Since LinuxMint is based on Kubuntu, what is the difference between that and Kubuntu? Is it just the Mint flavor? :-) |
| tracyanne Jun 02, 2012 6:40 PM EDT |
Clement says yes |
| claudecat Jun 02, 2012 9:28 PM EDT |
I too await Mint 13 KDE - playing with the MATE version now and it's really nice. Almost indistinguishable from gnome2. Cinnamon still feels incomplete to me. |
| Koriel Jun 02, 2012 11:48 PM EDT |
I tried Cinnamon the panel kept restarting for no apparent reason, was easy enough to rip out and put in XFCE 4.10 which I swear seems to use less ram than 4.8 yet has more features, not sure how they wangled that, I must be imagining it but my cold start ram usage dropped 10mb after removing 4.8 and putting in 4.10. I have an almost obsessive tendency to monitor my ram usage might need to see a shrink about that. |
| montezuma Jun 03, 2012 9:46 AM EDT |
I use cinnamon on two machines now (laptop and desktop). Works pretty well for me once a few applets are installed. The only downside is that it uses video acceleration which increases power consumption and if your drivers are buggy (like the latest nvidia) can cause crashes. |
| cmost Jun 03, 2012 2:22 PM EDT |
@ montezuma I noticed that about the nvidia drivers too. Have you tried the latest beta driver? Seems to be working much better for me. |
| montezuma Jun 03, 2012 4:39 PM EDT |
@cmost Yeah I did but it didn't work for me so I reverted to the 290 driver which removes all problems. |
| caitlyn Jun 03, 2012 5:37 PM EDT |
Resource consumption will keep me away from GNOME3/Cinnamon. I've been using the MATE edition of SalixOS some and it works well. At this point XFCE is still my first choice though I do really like the KDE 4.8.2 implemenatation in ROSA 2012 Marathon. |
| Steven_Rosenber Jun 03, 2012 9:04 PM EDT |
I still like Nautilus and Gedit better than Thunar and Mousepad, so I'm looking at a hybrid DE. |
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