LM with Cinnamon on my netbook??

[kees19]

Hello everyone,
I have a question regarding the system requirements of Mint Linux 13 with Cinnamon. I have a eeepc 1015pd with 1GB of RAM and processor Atom N455 1.66 GHz. I use the computer mainly for work with LibreOffice, data analysis, applications of mathematics, reading pdf, and surf the internet. I need a system that is light, stable and (perhaps) also nice to see. Linux Mint with Cinnamon is a good option? Or should I think of something else? If so, what?

I looked for some answers around but could not find anything, sorry if the topic has already been treated and sorry for the bad english

[oobetimer]

I have a Asus mini-laptop which has same components, and I think that Mint MATE works better than Cinnamon. MATE is faster and more usable ..

You can install both of them. If you install MATE first, you can install Cinnamon using command sudo apt-get install cinnamon

[BrianD]

...except, you're far better off if you install the Cinnamon edition, and then install MATE via sudo apt-get install mint-meta-mate.

I have an Acer Aspire One D250 netbook, and it triple-boots between Windows 7 Starter (came with the netbook), Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon, and Fedora 17 (Gnome shell). I have not witnessed any obvious slowdowns or other 'performance hits' by running Cinnamon on this architecture, or for that matter, running plain vanilla Gnome 3.4 under Fedora on this architecture.

[AlbertP]

Cinnamon should run well on this netbook - I suppose it has Intel GMA 3150 graphics.

[kees19]

thanks very much. Then I'll try to soon to install with Cinnamon Mint on my netbook and I'll let you know how it goes. You gave me the answer I was hoping because Cinnamon seems more pleasant to see and more customizable - but I feared that this computer could not stand the graphics. I'm looking forward to installing cinnamon! thanks again!

[nunol]

I have a Asus Eee 1001P with a N450 Atom CPU and 1024MB of RAM. Now it's running Mint 13 Cinnamon 32bit, before was running Mint 12 with Cinnamon 64bits. It's not to slow but sometimes it takes a few seconds for the menu to open. If you find Cinnamon to slow MATE is not going to be much faster.

[A Future Pilot]

For a netbook like that (Which is very similar to my own) I would suggest using PeppermintOS: http://www.peppermintos.com/

It's based on ubuntu and is IMO the perfect OS for a netbook or older hardware. Right now the latest version is Peppermint 2 which is based on 11.04, however either this week or next, Peppermint 3 should be released, and it is based on 12.04 just like Mint 13.

[gychang]

Hello everyone,
I have a question regarding the system requirements of Mint Linux 13 with Cinnamon. I have a eeepc 1015pd with 1GB of RAM and processor Atom N455 1.66 GHz. I use the computer mainly for work with LibreOffice, data analysis, applications of mathematics, reading pdf, and surf the internet. I need a system that is light, stable and (perhaps) also nice to see. Linux Mint with Cinnamon is a good option? Or should I think of something else? If so, what?

I looked for some answers around but could not find anything, sorry if the topic has already been treated and sorry for the bad english

I have a similar netbook, found LM cinnamon little slow for my taste, u can try LM-LXDE version, but I ended up going to Crunchbang, which is fast on my netbook.

gychang