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Well done Bims. Thanks for posting. I am sure cinnamon users will appreciate having all that handy functionality in one spot. Cheers.

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I just tried mate. Still seems buggy, crashed often when installing drivers and once with installing Cairo-dock. 2 times crashed catastrophically.

I was using Linux mint Debian. I installed both Gnome and Xfce. I also had similar issues with Xfce. As a rolling release, They both required 3 hours of updates. On 2nd thought. it could have been the 3 hours in updates that crashed it, as well.

I liked them both, before they crashed and the open source drivers gave me no real trouble.


Kantoquad

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So you're saying... what about Cinnamon?

MATE doesn't seem to me a project that will take off, more like a temporary soother for users stranded in the post Gnome 3 world. When I tried it it was Gnome 2 plus bugs and glitches. Maybe it'll prove me wrong eventually but at the moment I don't see a place for it in the long run, certainly not now Cinnamon seems to have caught whatever steam it could have had.

What's gonna happen with the next Pinguy btw? A customized Gnome Shell? Razor-Qt?

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Anyone interested in the Gnome 2 style should take a look at the new Gnome Classic that comes along with Gnome Shell. It's exactly what people are looking for, an updated version of the interface they love in the new toolkit.

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Unless Gnome has changed their their mind, Gnome Classic (aka the fallback session) will only exist as long as the main Gnome Shell session requires 3D acceleration - it's not a session with a future ahead of it but at best a familiar waiting room until one is forced to choose something else when the fallback session is discontinued.

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Hi guys!! Mate,Gnome Classic, Cinnamon, are all pretty much of a muchness, the ONLY one that makes any sense of the three, is Cinnamon, as it puts a more "user-friendly" face to Gnome3. It won't replace Gnome 3 Shell, as Gnome, like Canonical's Unity, have determined the direction they want to go in. Cinnamon will be the "Die-Hards Refuge" as it will give the increasingly more functional aspects of Gnome 3 under a different guise that massages peeps feelings, and makes them feel included!! Ubuntu for Android,Ubuntu TV, Ubuntu for netbook,laptop,desktop,tablet,Smart TV. Canonical sees a multi-device/constant-connection,24/7 online - one platform OS future ahead. And wants to be leading edge to this. I don't hear of Gnome for Andriod, or Gnome TV, IN FACT hav'nt heard much of anything regarding the future of Gnome. Apple is on the road to merging it's iOS across all it's product range, (reducing the range itself, no more Mac Book, no more iMac) from the iPhone thru to Mac Book Air. An iOS XI perhaps??? No need to mention Windows, just two words.....Metro Interface.....says it all
All the Best
SB