Trying Mint

[Roasted]

I've considered trying Linux Mint lately. As time passes, Mint is becoming more attractive to me. I have it in a VM right now and it's quite nice. Cinnamon looks and feels great, but I do find myself more attracted to the Unity/Gnome Shell oriented environments. Problem is, since I've tried Gnome 3.8, I really don't find 3.6 that great, and 3.6 is what's packaged with both 13.04 and Mint 14.

[monkeybrain2012]

@pfeiffpe

Zombie is exactly what Mate is. gtk2 is dead, how long can they keep up with a deprecated toolkit? I like Unity and gnome-shell and am pretty happy with Ubuntu. However on old machines Lubuntu is really fast. I doubt that mate could beat that, basing on gnome2 as it is. Remember gnome2 was never considered "light" in its days. People who wanted a light DE would go for xubuntu or Lubuntu.

[momist]

I have Lubuntu, Peppermint, and Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix as alternative boots on my laptop. Yes, Lubuntu is perceptably faster than Ubuntu, but I can't seem to really feel comfortable with it. I find myself preferring to use the Cinnamon Remix more than the others. Peppermint is _really_ fast, but then of course it slows down when using cloud based applications. My desktop has been Cinnamon flavour Mint 13 for over a year now, and I don't see any need to change that yet.

[goldshirt9]

tried to install lmde on an old netbook - total nightmare and gave up, need to improve installation package.
ran kde on the same netbook - loved it, albeit a little sluggish .Love kde
installed with a little help from here http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=126140
and am sticking with mint nadia xfce.Runs a dream, installs what i need on a netbook ( which isnt alot )low consumption of ram , cpu.
only hitch is a failure to load partition at boot up ???? (believe that very old hdd is slowly going wrong) starts ok after a few seconds though.
Run Unity on laptop but just too glitchy on netbook

[pfeiffep]

I just installed the Cinnamon theme on my Ubuntu 13.04 and have to say this is awesome!

Much more to my liking than Unity & Dash + all the speed of Raring and a newer Kernel than Mint 14.

[deadflowr]

I just installed the Cinnamon theme on my Ubuntu 13.04 and have to say this is awesome!

Much more to my liking than Unity & Dash + all the speed of Raring and a newer Kernel than Mint 14.

I installed cinnamon on raring the day it hit the repos during development.

Quite easy and enjoyable.
Had to kill hot corner though, as I moved my panel to the top and going to opening the menu kept executing the workspace expo switcher.
No biggie.
And I repeat, I moved my panel. having run unity for so long, that by itself was like a lost revelation.