I have been alternating between Cinnamon and KDE for the last couple of weeks. I really like Cinnamon, partly because it is a lot like KDE, at least the way I use it.
I typically have running amarok, thunderbird, 5 or 6 windows of SRware iron with 6-8 tabs in each, one or 2 libreoffice documents, one or two pdfs opened withn okulat and maybe more. With KDE, it absorbs almost all of my 8GB of memory. (I recently went from 4 to 8GB because of occasional crashes, which have practically disappeared.) With Cinnamon, it uses about half. That is obviously not a very quantitative measure, tho.
Of course, with CInnamon, I use workspaces as opposed to Plasma's activities. Frankly, the only difference this makes to me is that I cannot (yet) have different background images with cinnamon workspaces.
Aside from using less memory, the rest of the difference is pretty much details:
Cinnamon lets me arrange workspaces in the chooser as I like, and not just alphabetically.
I would like a few more applets/widgets in Cinnamon, in particular, a folder view and a graphic network monitor. This is no big deall, tho.
Anyone else have any opinions?
I typically have running amarok, thunderbird, 5 or 6 windows of SRware iron with 6-8 tabs in each, one or 2 libreoffice documents, one or two pdfs opened withn okulat and maybe more. With KDE, it absorbs almost all of my 8GB of memory. (I recently went from 4 to 8GB because of occasional crashes, which have practically disappeared.) With Cinnamon, it uses about half. That is obviously not a very quantitative measure, tho.
Of course, with CInnamon, I use workspaces as opposed to Plasma's activities. Frankly, the only difference this makes to me is that I cannot (yet) have different background images with cinnamon workspaces.
Aside from using less memory, the rest of the difference is pretty much details:
Cinnamon lets me arrange workspaces in the chooser as I like, and not just alphabetically.
I would like a few more applets/widgets in Cinnamon, in particular, a folder view and a graphic network monitor. This is no big deall, tho.
Anyone else have any opinions?
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