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I've been using Cinnamon for years now on Fedora. No issues with crashes on my end. I like it as far as I'm concerned it is a solid piece of software, it works
by bigger_cheese 4y ago
I've been using Cinnamon for years now on Fedora. No issues with crashes on my end. I like it as far as I'm concerned it is a solid piece of software, it works and it does what I want I don't need to touch anything to have it working the way I prefer. It may not be the fanciest or have all the bells a whistles but it is what I like.
When I first started using Linux in the early 2000's as a university student KDE was the environment that managed to get me to switch over from Windows. I appreciated just how configurable it was. I would spent hours tweaking my desktop getting everything setup just how I liked it to look. It felt like there was a configuration setting in KDE for just about everything. I remember spending an afternoon procrastinating as a student picking the perfect font for the system clock.
All of that seemed to come at a cost I remember it gradually felt more and more bloated and things became less responsive over time I reached a point where I cared less and less about being able to customize things and more about just having a useable system. I kind of grudgingly used Gnome (in the Gnome 2.6 days) I was never really enamored with it but it "worked".
Gnome 3 lost me as a user completely I just did not mesh with the new paradigm they were going for. I tried out KDE again but this was around the time they were having stability issues and there was some new file indexing system they were using I'm not sure if it was just badly implemented by my distro but it was incredibly resource intensive it would freeze the system for 2 to 3 seconds at a time whenever it kicked it. So I moved on tried out a few other environments like XFCE for a while before settling on Cinnamon.
On a semi-related note does anyone know what happened to Enlightenment? I remember that was the much hyped up desktop environment back in the old Slashdot days I never really hear about it these days.
- lelanthran 4y ago> On a semi-related note does anyone know what happened to Enlightenment? Yes. It's still alive, but last I checked it was still incredibly buggy. This might explain why: https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened