![]() As a Linux newbie, I want to be able to do as much as possible from the GUI, and Xfce frustrated me in that respect.Īnyway, Cinnamon works well enough on my older laptop, and I don’t find find it to be particularly old or ugly compared to the alternatives. I also tried Xfce (in Manjaro?) and found it underpowered. I’m pretty sure I tried … Pantheon? In Elementary? … at some point and that I was very underwhelmed. I found it to be serviceable, but not my cup of tea. I may only have tried Gnome 3 in Chapeau Linux. The software repository was by far the slowest of any distro I tried (it was excruciatingly slow, apparently with no domestic mirrors at the time), but the desktop environment’s apparently very limited configurability and power was fatal to me. I only tried Deepin in the original Deepin distro. It’s very possible the problems were primarily or even exclusively due to the distros’ inadequate support of virtual environments. I also had issues with Neon and OpenSuse KDE (both Tumbleweed and Leap), but I no longer remember what, exactly. Manjaro KDE was (on my machine) one of the slowest, laggiest distros I tried. PCLinuxOS got borked when I installed Linux Guest Additions. (That’s not a deal-killer I can handle a learning curve.) But mostly, the distros I tried with KDE had other problems. Also, while it’s highly configurable (which I like), the way the settings are divided up didn’t strike me as entirely intuitive. I like KDE Plasma, but it’s too resource-heavy (slow, laggy) in a virtual machine on my old, modestly upgraded, middle-of-the-road laptop. ![]() I can do most of the things I want to do, so far, from the standard menus and context menus provided, which I have not found to be the case with a lot of other desktop environments. I’m probably reasonably “happy” with Cinnamon because Linux Mint Cinnamon has been the most hassle-free Linux distro I’ve tried in VirtualBox. ![]() Now you: If you’re a Cinnamon user, what other Spices do you use? For non Cinnamon users, what do you use in your environment? Let us know in the comments! I like to stick this in the center of my panel, at the top of my screen, since I use a dock at the bottom of my screen to replace the window list from the panel that I remove. It can be customized to suit methods of measurement you prefer, how many days information you want etc. Upon clicking the folder, a list of all your major destinations and devices is listed, for quick and easy access to the specified location via file manager. What I prefer to do is place it beside my applications menu. Places Center adds a single small folder icon to your panel. The ones I use (not included by default) are: AppletsĪpplets are items that are added to your panel(s), such as showing the Weather, custom menus, etc. I, prefer this over the default personally. ![]() Rather than the default Cinnamon appearance, it changes to resemble the familiar Windows counterpart, and show thumbnails. This one changes the way things look when you hit ALT+TAB. ![]() The effect, is when you are simply staring at your desktop, your panel is slightly hidden / blending in, but when you are in a maximized window plugging away at whatever it is you do, the panel is fully visible to not hinder your workflow. What this does, is turns any of your Panels to be fully transparent, so long as no windows are fully maximized. This one again is straightforward and simple, but I love its effect. This one is fairly simple and straightforward, but a nice addition, that will make any window you click and drag to move, highly transparent. GTile is a handy extension that allows greater flexibility in how you tile windows on your screen, allowing for multiple different setups instead of the 50/50 default, as well as multi-monitor support.Ībsolutely essential to anyone using Cinnamon, who still enjoys the use of tiles. ![]()
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