Re: Installing Cinnamon 2.0
On Sat, 2013-10-12 at 07:04 -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
> > Regarding to the OPs request I guess that there's a reason that Debian
> > maintainers didn't upgrade to Cinnamon 2.0 yet. It's easy to build
> > packages that run on your or my machine, but a maintainer needs to
> > ensure that things don't break by nearly every combination of installed
> > packages.
>
> I swear on a stack of Bibles, most people running Wheezy will have minimal trouble. Note: I didn't say no trouble, or all people. But that is true for most packages on Debian, even for those people running Stable.
Maybe, maybe not.
> People are abandoning Gnome 3 in droves. Most are turning to XFCE, I think largely because it is already in Debian.
At least many GNOME 2 users from the Linux audio community tested many
DEs on different distros and the winners seemingly where Xfce and LXDE.
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