I went back to my old haunt (Mint Forum)...

[tek_heretik]

and told them how crappy Cinnamon is (Mint 13), they didn't like that, lol. Seriously, after using Kubuntu 12.04, I have no idea what I saw in Mint except non-free under the hood stuff.

[sixonetonoffun]

I could like LMDE but it suffers from a serious lack of polish and to me just isn't worth the extra effort involved. If I did I'd just use Aptosid, Gentoo or Arch. From all reports Cinnamons not likely to draw me in either.

[Jonas]

lol - I just installed Mint / Cinnamon, and I kind of like it ...(at least so far .. about 30 minutes ) but I never really liked Gnome either (not to mention those "Gnome apps" - nautilus, banshee, transmission etc - utterly annoying) *sorry for the rant*

That said, I choose it over Ubuntu/Unity which I had prior. It's a test to see what Mint is all about, sort of a research project for a friend. Aim is to let him try something besides Kubuntu/KDE.

I think next test may be Archbang or a Sid fork.

b.r

Jonas

[woodsmoke]

AptoSid is very nice.

woodsmoke

[ferri]

and told them how crappy Cinnamon is (Mint 13), they didn't like that, lol.

You strike very sensitive chord. Cinnamon is Mint's child.
I had the same feeling after trying Mint 13. Cinnamon is Cinnamon, but it has still Gnome 3 base.

[tek_heretik]

You strike very sensitive chord. Cinnamon is Mint's child.
I had the same feeling after trying Mint 13. Cinnamon is Cinnamon, but it has still Gnome 3 base.

lol @ Mint's child, the functionality just isn't there, as a GUI I mean, KDE makes it look like Win-DOHs 3.1, and they moved things around, change is ok but not all at once. Besides, I was sick of their grey/green colour scheme, drab, depressing and boring.