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Yeah, me too. In a sense, I miss running stock Ubuntu, but it stopped making me happy and Cinnamon was my fix. Unfortunately, last time I checked several months

Yeah, me too. In a sense, I miss running stock Ubuntu, but it stopped making me happy and Cinnamon was my fix. Unfortunately, last time I checked several months ago, Cinnamon only reliably works as packaged with Mint, and becomes bugtastic when installed on Ubuntu, Fedora, etc. I don't have major issues with Linux. I've had a few teething problems with new hardware and occasionally there's a surprise, but nothing like the author described. In fact, for me, GNU/Linux is more of a pleasure to run than any other operating system I've used, including OS X. Having said that, I had major issues with Linux when I tried to make it my primary OS for the first time in 2006 and can empathize with the author of this article. I had such a bad experience that I went back to Windows XP and didn't make the full switch until early 2010; I haven't looked back since. If anything, this article is a call to action to improve desktop Linux. We're all aware of the second class nature of consumer vendor support, and there are a lot of native apps that don't compare to their OS X or Windows counterparts, both in functionality and aesthetics. (GIMP comes to mind. It's ok, but it's nowhere near as capable as the current version of Photoshop.)

tuneit 14y ago
Have you tried xubuntu? I went all kind of mint installs for some time. But when I went back to Xubuntu it all fell in place.
- kintamanimatt 14y ago
  Indeed I have and used it pretty much from the time Unity became mandatory up until Cinnamon became stable enough to use day-to-day. I do like Xfce more than Unity, but not enough to keep using it. I actually really quite love Cinnamon and Mint in general, although it could do with a lot of polish, especially the default login manager which isn't the best. mint-update is very buggy too and half the time just doesn't work. Overall though, it's a happy experience and it looks better to me too.

tuneit 14y ago

Have you tried xubuntu? I went all kind of mint installs for some time. But when I went back to Xubuntu it all fell in place.

kintamanimatt 14y ago
Indeed I have and used it pretty much from the time Unity became mandatory up until Cinnamon became stable enough to use day-to-day. I do like Xfce more than Unity, but not enough to keep using it. I actually really quite love Cinnamon and Mint in general, although it could do with a lot of polish, especially the default login manager which isn't the best. mint-update is very buggy too and half the time just doesn't work. Overall though, it's a happy experience and it looks better to me too.