Impact of Cinnamon >>>> Linux Mint

[sandys]

I think the value of Cinnamon per se will soon far outstrip the value of maintaining a separate distro altogether. It may make more sense to leverage all the core libraries of Ubuntu and roll Cinnamon (and the best features of Mint) into a easy to install desktop.

If we analyze the recent upsurge of interest in Mint, it is primarily driven by hate for Unity than any other aspect of Ubuntu. As far as other multimedia and software packages are concerned, a "cinnamon-desktop-clean" top level package for Ubuntu baseline can do eliminate all unnecessary packages and install Cinnamon + relevant features of Mint.

Cinnamon has the potential to be one of the three desktops - Unity, Gnome 3 and KDE being the current top 3.

Does the rest of the community think that Linux Mint will be less important/valuable than a cinnamon-based desktop focussed towards seamless integration with Ubuntu baseline ?

[Oscar799]

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[Nightstrike2009]

I personally feel that like myself the Ubuntu problem doesn't just lie with "Unity" itself (but its a major factor), its also an ignorance or lack of respect displayed by Ubuntu's owners towards its users and a very bad case of "Elitism" displayed on Ubuntu Forums recently towards users that don't favour Unity (including Moderators of that forum editing, deleting or even erasing threads that or not pro-unity) IMO.

Once users have been lost/converted to another distro because of the above reasons it feel it will be very hard maybe even impossible to win them back but thats just my own opinion.

I have distro-hopped myself from Ubuntu and back, but I feel the Ubuntu/Ubuntu forums situation, Unity problem & the current lack of respect towards its users will eventually lead to its downfall in time, Ubuntu has had its day its a new distro's turn now. In the current situation I'd rather go back to scratch and learn Debian, Fedora or another distro if Linux Mint was no longer an option for me, I will not use Unity or be forced to use it (or have my opinion edited/deleted/erased) just because i don't agree with Ubuntu's "Unity" stance and believe in alternative & better options.