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LMDE offers a choice of user interfaces. Mate for the die hard Gnome 2 people, Cinnamon for people who like the old desktop metaphor but still want the latest software and Gnome Shell 3.2 for those who embrace the future. Also available is the Xfce4 edition. Once installed they all look very similar, with the classic Mint layout, theme and menus.
If you have not tried Cinnamon I would recommend it. It uses GTK3 (rather than GTK2 which Mate uses, making it a bit stuck in the past) and is more modern looking than Mate, while keeping most of the Gnome 2 desktop metaphor that many (including me) like.
I struggled with LMDE for months, and there were no updates at all, and when the last came I fooled with it for hours trying to get it to work. I think "cutting edge" means "perpetually broken". I installed Mint 12 Cinnamon instead, & smiled.
Why do they bother with Mate? Refine Cinnamon instead.
Why do they bother with Mate? Refine Cinnamon instead.
Enough with the various Gnome interfaces and mixed desktops; give me KDE and keep the limited-use apps for those that don't know how to configure things. This is Linux, not OSX.
Personally, I think SolusOS is better than LMDE.....although I had started with LMDE....there was no reason to fork gnome 2 and some of the side choices to make LMDE better? Cinnamon, Mate.....come on....Cinnamon, you can't even resize the task bar or make the fonts bigger....there's also a lot of other programs that no longer work with LMDE because of all these supposed improvements....so I heard about SolusOS and installed it, and have my apps from before and they work great.....thanks Ikey for a great OS....You can see the result from SolusOS on the distro watch page: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=solusos
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