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KDE is my favorite Desktop Environment.
When I started using mint; Katya was the release that I got. I installed GNOME in it. Didn't like it much, so changed to KDE. But It used to freeze a lot. Somehow managed to go on.
Life became a lot easier with Lisa KDE. It was really great. Used it for a long time. And there were almost no freeze or speed issues..
When Maya came, I couldn't control myself. And got an image for Maya Cinnamon. It seemed to be good, but some friend on Xchat IRC said i should try xfce and it is better than Cinnamon. But I didn't installed either of those; I got KDE again. But unfortunately it was too damn slow.. It was so irritating.. So switched to XFCE.
Well! it's good. Fast and elegant..
But I like KDE..

Can somebody tell me if there are application compatibility problems in Cinnamon compared to MATE?

Hi,
Experience distro like openSuse 12.1, Fedora 16, MageIA 2 and ubuntu 12.04, I now discovering Linux Mint with MATE DE.
Concerning Cinnamon .. in a near futur, dual booting on my ACER 5552G.

New user - Cinnamon and I like it - thank you!

kde is for sure my favorite.

My gnome 3, cinnamon and KDE get extremely sluggish when my computer is not connected to a network/internet. I do not understand what the cause of this could be, is it possible that simply being connected to a network can enhance the performance of these DE's or could this issue be something more to do with the graphics driver I use, or maybe ultimately there is something very wrong with my linux mint setup (ie. might have to fresh install and start over to fix this)? For the mean-time I have managed to set up a good AwesomeWM session for fallback purposes and when I am not connected to a network.
Has anyone encountered a similar problem?

maybe the network card driver is crazy.
doing some pointless thing all over again and again.
if you run "top" in a terminal, can you see an offending process using 100% of a core?
does disabling in BIOS, or removing the network card/interface/stick, "solve" the problem?

if not, this is deep.
a reason for your computer working with awesome may be, if no network manager is launched, then none of the crazyness happens.
you may try disabling the networking manager in gnome/KDE, preventing it from being launched or even removing try ; try to use wicd instead.

when I install a desktop that only gets network from cabled internet, I get rid of the network manager and use a simple /etc/network/interfaces file. old text and CLI but that gives me one less thing to worry about.

btw, I awesome is a good choice for tiling manager I'll have to try it . there are so many ones. I may judge it given the names, most are non-descriptive but there's "awesome" and "ratpoison", surely the former will be easier than the latter

linuxdude2 wrote:Can somebody tell me if there are application compatibility problems in Cinnamon compared to MATE?

No problems here w/Cinnamon except for the "Panel Launcher", which randomly removes or changes launchers and became invisible (can't access it to add items) when it was empty. FWIW.

MATE totally rocks!!! I've been a long time Gnome user, but really hated what they did with Gnome 3. Just started running MATE with Mint 13, and it's true Gnome, just like it should be.

tarkus wrote:MATE totally rocks!!! I've been a long time Gnome user, but really hated what they did with Gnome 3. Just started running MATE with Mint 13, and it's true Gnome, just like it should be.

I 2nd this - MATE made my day

Enlightenement, because it's the most flexible. I try KDE, but the pager is broken. I try openbox, but it keep crashing. The standard menu on Gnome is OK, but for non anglophone the iconic menu in the background is unusable because of the limitation of 12 character at the bottom of the icon. I have 12 icons with the word "Gestionnaire" because for langage like French or Italian the order of the expression are different. In French, Italian the expression "display manager" would become something like"manager of display".

I'm using lxde right now, but who knows how long that will last. I get bored every few months and use something else. All DE's are good to me, and it really doesn't matter what I use.

I'm in the 11%...KDE for me!

Wow! incredible

never expected to see Cinnamon to be so popular, i though it was just myself and very few others that actually like this new DE

Well, to be honest, it's probably not that popular outside of Mint community. But, that might change as well, 'cause Cinnamon is an actually good DE.

Im using Mate+Compiz, wonderful DE.
But I have Cinnamon installed also and plan to use it in the near future.
Just waiting as it becomes more mature and stable.
Used to have xfce on suse, but it's a bit on the "too simple" side (for example lacks bluetooth support). Mate is better.

I absolutely loved Cinnamon, but kept getting wierd glitches like themes dropping out or the mint menu freezing while browsing for items. I had openSuse installed dual boot and KDE worked perfectly so I installed Mint KDE 13 when it arrived. I've had a perfectly smooth time with it so far (other than my noob ignorance and tinkering too much) and it is now the only linux OS on my system.

I'll probably try cinnamon again some time in the future but for now KDE is great.

Keep up the good work guys, you have a good loyal following and it can only get better as other distro's ignore their users needs.

I like running Xfce on my Acer Netbook (32-bit, a few years old, only 1GB RAM) because the system resources are so minimal. I got so used to the interface, though, that after playing with Cinnamon and Mate for a few days each, I wiped the hard drive on a new Toshiba 64-bit laptop, and installed Xfce again. Little puppy really moves now!

I will vote for LXDE in view of its convenience in using However I am also looking towards using MATE along with Cinnamon in order to have good screen views and preview exercises.

After a hectic few weeks of setting up each and every version of LM13 on my two desktop systems and giving each version a solid few days workout, I've settled on Xfce.

As far as I'm concerned it's the pick of the bunch - it's the snappiest and simply feels 'just right'.

I'm yet to run into any bugs or game-stopping glitches. It's also quite customisable - something which I didn't really expect.

Cheers,

Mike.