Re: Installing Cinnamon 2.0
Still, when I was looking for something that feels like Gnome2, I was
dissatisfied with my short Cinnamon experience. Too slow and bloated,
doesn't resemble G2 much in fact.
I'm using MATE right now and it's good, but from the perspective
viewpoint, I'd stick with XFCE.
On 11.10.2013 16:36, Jochen Spieker wrote:
> Jonathan Dowland:
>> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 09:24:36PM +0800, 陶治江 wrote:
>>> Why cinnamon?
>>> Try MATE, I think it is better.
>>> I have test cinnamon before, too much slower than MATE.
>> Cinnamon is in Debian officially, MATE is not. Yet, at least.
> And it will most probably never be. Mate needs deprecated Gtk2 libraries
> that nobody intends to support in the long run. Cinnamon uses the same
> libraries that Gnome3 uses which makes it much easier to maintain in a
> distribution like Debian.
>
> J.
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