On Friday 06 June 2014 07:14 PM, Anand.R.Kris wrote: > Hi All, > > My review-of-sorts on Linux Mint Cinnamon... > > ________________________________________________________ > > I have been running the Cinnamon DE on my Mint Box for past few months > and must admit that I'm greatly impressed with it. It features a > polished and elegant interface and is fluid and responsive to my > workflow and computing needs. > > For those of you do not know about the project, Cinnamon is a fast > evolving, sleek, solid and modern Linux desktop maintained by Linux > Mint team and built with help of a vibrant community. It is a fork of > GNOME shell team but with an intention to offer the traditional > desktop metaphor to the user. With every release, developers have done > a wonderful job of creating a stable environment by incrementally > adding features and have made using the desktop a breeze. > > I would like to briefly touch upon the salient features offered by > Cinnamon desktop, viz, A. Control Center / System Settings B. Cinnamon > Spices C. Window / Workspace management > > *Control Center / System Settings* > > Cinnamon features a very intuitive and powerful customization tool to > mandodify the desktop to one's preferences. It allows you to customize > appearance like changing default font of the system, setting keyboard > shortcuts, manage hardware settings (bluetooth, printers, etc) , > change default behavior and administrative tasks such as adding users > / groups. > > > More and with some screen-shots at > > http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=208&t=169289&p=870082#p870082 > I have enjoyed Cinnamon too. But my laptop has AMD Radeon graphics which Mint for some reason could not work with (how I dream of a open computer). So I had to use Ubunutu. Guess what next, after some updates Unity broke and now am using Gnome which on top of Ubuntu fits not so good.
But in home I have a desktop (rarely used) that uses Mint and it runs so cool. -- ----- Karthikeyan A K +91 9444018524 _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
