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
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