I tried cinnamon, and I'm thinking about trying mate now.

i liked gnome the best. the only bad thing is the crapware built into the shell. you have to be leet to uninstall it without breaking the desktop.

>>54859064
Cinnamon is pointless with mate soon becoming GTK3 based.

>>54859242
>GTK3
When is that happening?

>>54859064
Use Debian with a light windows manager such as openbox

>>54859464

Can I know why? I'm more or less new to linux I'm not sure I'm ready yet

>>54859271
Literally never

>>54859479
Less bloat and less resource intensive.
If you need a system that just werks and you need it fast stick to Ubuntu or mint. If you've got time to learn then try debian.

>>54859242
>with mate soon becoming GTK3 based
I've never understood the reasoning of this. Wasn't the point of MATE to offer a stable alternative to GTK3's shit-breaking update nonsense in the first place?

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>>54859464
Am I doin it rite

>>54859271
Ubuntu Mate will release it with 16.10

>>54859641
Maybe they will used patched versions like Ubuntu does in unity

>>54859242
Mate is a clunky obsolete version of Cinnamon with barely any development. Cinnamon is miles ahead and will only go further.

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>>54859064
Debian stable here.
Cinnamon is the best for Windows users like myself.

>>54859242
Mate is going to drop like 100 features if they want to be 100% gtk3 starting by the panels and applets. The same with xfce.

>>54859664
what panel is that ?

>>54859064
Used it, came back to cinnamon.

>>54860424
tint2

Best distro for shitty laptop?

Considering going back to Debian, I've come across multiple bugs in Mint that together annoy the hell out of me.

>>54860494
Depends on how shitty
See >>54859664 for example

>>54860567
slightly better than that, bigger ram (4 gigs)
its a hp pavillon dv5

kde mint on separate partition, cinnamon mint on vm

>>54860494
xubuntu

>>54860818
Installing it tommorow famalamadingdong

>>54860585
Ubuntu MATE

>>54860497
what bugs?

Are the Mint devs taking security seriously now? Or are they still chalking up the criticisms to mean people being mean?

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>>54860219
What makes you think Gtk3 can't do panels? Cinnamon uses them...

Using cinnamon. Tried mate once for about am hour, hated it like hell

>>54861148
>Are the Mint devs taking security seriously now?
No. They still delay updates.

>>54859064
I always preferred Xfce. Lately I've started using WMs instead. Fluxbox in particular. It looks and behaves like utter shit upon install, but this is intentional. The point is to use it, to build the exact desktop you want. It's designed to make doing so easy. Literally every tiny detail about it can be changed to suit you, and it's done by editing simple text files. If you don't mind a little reading, and some effort, it's great.

If you want it to just work out of the box, Xfce. Albeit, Xfce is highly customizable too. It just happens to look pretty nice out of the box on Mint and Manjaro.

>>54859064
Debian, Openbox and xfce4-panel mustard race eggsdee. No but this is really worth it once set up which takes forever from a netinstall which is the only downside

Cinnamon is the best. Everything else is downhill. Even Mate is worse.

>>54859064
Mint is trash m8
>>54859242
Hahaha
no

>>54860067
>Mate is a clunky obsolete version of Cinnamon
No. Gnome2 was never based on mint trash.

>>54859064
Arch linux with i3.

>>54863794
Shut up, winshill.

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>>54859064
I only use DEs that can do the vertical taskbar properly, which Windows can since Windows 7.
Last time I checked, Cinnamon can't, and only Unity, XFCE and KDE can.

>>54863889
My point is that they are very similar but Cinnamon is more polished and better designed for future advancement than Mate.

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how's Elementary OS?

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>>54864125
>MATE
>Future advancement
Are you a retard?

>>54864156
The eOS is dark and full of terrors.

>>54862263
I used Cinnamon for a while and ended up hating it like hell. But I suppose it's because I'm old and hate change; mate lets me relive the glory days of yesteryear / 10 years ago. Comfy af.

>>54864295
>I didn't read the thread but this post triggered me

>>54864409
>I didn't read the post but this thread triggered me
>Also I fuck dogs

>>54864019
Get that disgusting image out of this thread, microcuck.

>>54864019
*** NICE SHILLPOST WOULD REPORT AGAIN 10/10 ***

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I came to and settled on Cinnamon as a DE after almost everything mentioned in this thread. The non-tiling WM/DE I enjoyed the most before Cinnamon was Openbox. So I think our preferences might be quite different, OP.

I have plans to get 3x 1440p monitors soon (up from one 1080x1290 and two 1280x1024). With that much extra screen real estate I might try i3 again or even give something wonky like subtle a shot. Basically Cinnamon is the perfect traditional DE for me, but I might switch teams back to tiling-land.

>>54860497
I switched to fedora with cinnamon while I'm waiting for mint 18 to be released

>>54864156
literal shit.

>>54860128
holy fucking swap space

Cinnamon is configurable, has nice themes, and just works.

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>>54859464
This is the correct answer. It's just the right level between babby and ricelord.

>>54864156

my wife likes it.

>>54866502
>wife
>my

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>>54859664
>not archbang
dropped

>>54859664
You could use BunsenLabs instead since it's essentially the same as #! but with newer packages. Or #!++ for exactly the same as #! but with newer Debian base.

>>54859064
Linux Mint Debian Edition 2 with XFCE

>>54868735
She's not particularly computer savvy, so she likes the simplicity of elementary.