Really quite impressed with Mint 13 and Cinnamon

Hades

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Hades

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Many moons ago I was an avid Linux user (mostly red Hat and SuSE in the old days, then Ubuntu from around 5.04?) but I'd gravitated back to Windows due to gaming.

More recently I've become a little disillusioned with the direction of OSX and Windows 8 I've been looking again at Linux. Gnome 3 and Unity don't seem to be what I'm looing for and KDE 4 got sucha bad reputation a while ago that I haven't yet looked again at it.

But I tried Mint 13 with Cinnamon last night and think it's really, really promising. I was running it under Virtualbox and was surprised just how well it ran even as a VM. It looks quite nice (not quite up to Win 7 but still fairly pretty), offers a decent, 'proper' desktop environment, and seems reasonably customisable.

Thumbs up for Cinnamon :cool:
 
Hades said:
Many moons ago I was an avid Linux user (mostly red Hat and SuSE in the old days, then Ubuntu from around 5.04?) but I'd gravitated back to Windows due to gaming.

More recently I've become a little disillusioned with the direction of OSX and Windows 8 I've been looking again at Linux. Gnome 3 and Unity don't seem to be what I'm looing for and KDE 4 got sucha bad reputation a while ago that I haven't yet looked again at it.

But I tried Mint 13 with Cinnamon last night and think it's really, really promising. I was running it under Virtualbox and was surprised just how well it ran even as a VM. It looks quite nice (not quite up to Win 7 but still fairly pretty), offers a decent, 'proper' desktop environment, and seems reasonably customisable.

Thumbs up for Cinnamon :cool:
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Iv got this on download, looks fantastic dont you think. Iv only tried ubuntu and liked that. Im using parallels to run them on my MAC.
 
need to get mint 13. i've got mint 12 in vm and im always shocked at how well it runs in vm with so little resources allocated. im the same with ubuntu, although i never hated it, i never really liked it either.
 
Downloaded the MATE version on release but i haven't even burned it to a disk yet. Seems Arch is just too good ;)

Nah, i'm kidding. Quite a few problems that occasionally need fixing (although finding out how to fix them can be fun). Plus the temptation to just completely reinstall and go minimal with a Tiling WM is too high :p
 
also using mint 12 (force updated to 13) with cinnamon. 95% stable, only occasionally does the gui decide to hang and restart but then again i should probably do a fresh 13 install.

as mentioned, fast, great looking, actually nice apps on the task bar etc..

runs great. just for the love of god produce steam on linux :rolleyes:

i much prefer the feel of linux over windows 7 even though 7 is actually a perfectly stable and great o/s, mint is faster and crisper.
 
Put Mint 13 Cinnamon on a few days ago and i like it a lot. It's a seriously good OS. I will definitely be putting it on my 2nd pc once i free up my backup graphics card. Hopefully steam linux won't be too long, but im guessing it will likely be next year. who knows with valve.
 
I have win 7 as my only installed OS and use virtualbox for all other OS as i play games and am not too keen on dual booting, plus having them running virtually is way better than grub and half a dozen choices. although i have a dedicated mint screen so i can use mint while gaming. As i mainly play TF2 on steam i would have Mint installed with a dualboot of win7 with just my games installed on win7.
 
Installed today - mixed opinions so far.

Looks amazing, but when I don't use it for 5 mins or whatever and have to activate from screensaver/sleep mode and log back in the screen res is completely borked.

It randomly crashes (completely locked forcing hard reboot), which is exceedingly annoying given I've upgraded from V12 which was pretty much bomb proof :mad:

I do hope they are going to fix these issues.
 
George Hincapie said:
Installed today - mixed opinions so far.

Looks amazing, but when I don't use it for 5 mins or whatever and have to activate from screensaver/sleep mode and log back in the screen res is completely borked.

It randomly crashes (completely locked forcing hard reboot), which is exceedingly annoying given I've upgraded from V12 which was pretty much bomb proof :mad:

I do hope they are going to fix these issues.
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Did you upgrade or fresh install? I always had dependancy issues with upgrading. So just fresh install every new os.
 
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