Confused with the available choices of Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce variants in Linux Mint? Let me help you with which Linux Mint version should you use.
  • anonimno
    6·
    4 years ago

    I was a Gnome 2 user back in the day and then used KDE for a while. After some Linux-Desktop-Pause I installed Mint and used Cinnamon for a couple of yrs, so I’ve tested thru the bank. As I switched back to my beloved Debian I tried out the Gnome 3 UI in Buster for the first time. I find the Gnome 3 UI actually refreshing and different. I figured out that I was, after yrs of Linux usage, still trying to think of Linux Desktop in a way that it should be “Windows-like” in appearance. No need for that! People over at Gnome are trying new stuff and this is good! Cinnamon is a great DE, but Gnome 3 doesn’t deserve the bashing it gets.

  • loki
    5·
    4 years ago

    these blog posts are always just the repeating well-known comparision talking points (xfce: light, other: not). just like hundred other blogs.

    Are live boot screenshots and RAM usage all there is about these DEs?

    • Ephera
      31·
      4 years ago

      Well, other differences usually go very deep into the details and are ultimately a matter of taste. It’s certainly not the case that all of these have a unique selling point, because well, they’re not products trying to sell themselves.

      Having said that, these are the high-level differences as I see them:

      Cinnamon:

      • Very Windows-like (aesthetics and keyboard shortcuts)
      • one polished workflow
      • covers relatively many exotic usage scenarios relatively well

      MATE:

      • relatively lightweight
      • one polished workflow

      Xfce:

      • relatively lightweight
      • very modular and customizable
    • strubblOP
      2·
      4 years ago

      i would say the target reader is people who haven’t read all the other hundred other blogs

  • Arctus73@lemmygrad.ml
    3·
    4 years ago

    On GNOME 3.x now, really settled into it. I have heard claims that KDE is more efficient on resources than Xfce. Is there any truth to this? If so what are the significant differences or why this is?

  • jimipb
    3·
    4 years ago

    I wonder why they don’t have a LXDE flavor. I used ~2006 era core2duos with some gma950 and 2 gb of ram until a few years ago. The performance of Lubuntu was unparalleled.

    • Baku
      51·
      4 years ago

      I honestly can’t use anything else.

    • daojones
      11·
      4 years ago

      I got tired of the broken theming experience and lack of wayland support any time soon on their roadmap.

      I also found myself preferring apps that were built for GNOME anyway, so I ended up making a silly XFCE GNOME hybrid. All of my computers have decent graphics/ram and the resource usage of GNOME is overstated.

        • daojones
          1·
          4 years ago

          XFCE Window Manager & GTK themes are different

            • daojones
              1·
              4 years ago

              Also I don’t think it will be 20 years before Wayland is usable. I am using it right now on Manjaro Gnome and it works better than X.