There was one post that got a handful of comments this past week, so I will try to repost most of those.
An anonymous reader said, "It's too bad you didn't get to experience Mint 14 with Cinnamon. I have
it running on both a Pentium E5300 desktop with Nvidia 440 GT, and on a
6-year-old laptop with Intel C2D T7200 with Intel 945GM integrated
video, and it runs great on both."
Another anonymous commenter had this to say: "Cinnamon now comes with Nemo instead of Nautilus. I like it, but I am o
so missing the ability to have scripts and actions from within Nemo. In
my opinion it was made default file browser too early."
Reader
ArcherB shared this experience: "I just installed MATE on top of my standard Ubuntu installation. Works
great without the stability issues of Mint. Tried Cinnamon, but, like
the author ran across, it was simply not stable enough for me. It would
launch and run for a while, but then weirdness would crop up. It would
either lock up, "tear", or certain aspects of it would fail. MATE
works fine for me, so I'll stick with that and KDE."
Commenter
Jonc said, "I've run into no stability problems with Mint 14.4 Cinnamon. Or any
other problems. One of the pleasures of Cinnamon is that it requires
little customization, unlike many other distributions that tout their
configurability but release products that are ugly and disfunctional in
their default state. I've found MATE to be slow after using it
on Mint, Fedora and OpenSuse. The transitition from Gnome is incomplete
(Check the Startup Apps: several instances of MATE processes running in
parallel with their Gnome equivalents). I also wonder if the resources
behind MATE are enough to sustain it and if it can make a successful
transition to GTK3. If I wanted to run a Gnome 2 desktop, I'd go
with CentOS. Now, that does require a good bit of tweaking to get a good
looking usable desktop, but it is fast and very reliable."
Thanks to all those who commented on this past week's posts. This coming week, I have final exams, but after that is finished, I'll probably have a post out looking back on this semester along with possibly another review. Anyway, if you like what I write, please continue subscribing and commenting!