[lug] Linux Mint 13 - Now Available

[Steven A Hart]

I've used both Mate and Cinnamon on Mint 13 and I prefer Cinnamon.  
Nothing wrong really with Mate, I just think Cinnamon is more to my 
taste.  Honestly, both are easy to use and are far and away better than 
Unity.

Steve

On 06/07/2012 11:56 AM, Tom Martin wrote:
> Which interface is easier to learn? I am new to Linux and have yet to 
> have time to do an install hoping this weekend.
> Tom
>
> *From:* Maxwell Spangler <maxlists at maxwellspangler.com>
> *To:* boulderlinux <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 24, 2012 8:30 PM
> *Subject:* [lug] Linux Mint 13 - Now Available
> http://linuxmint.com/Linux Mint 13 is out.I did my first install of it 
> today and I really like it.  It's based on Ubuntu 12.04 but ditches 
> the Unity interface for it's own 'Cinnamon' interface that blends 
> Gnome3 and some original work.I'm sticking with Fedora at home for a 
> variety of reasons (full commitment to Gnome, my comfort with yum/rpm, 
> and a desire to have close to bleeding edge KVM virtualization) but 
> for friends who love Debian I'm recommending Linux Mint.  It's really 
> beautiful to look at with a tremendous amount of polish and 
> presentation.  And of course, all the usual stuff from any quality 
> Linux distribution is present, but it's the desktop innovation you'll 
> notice first and what'll really impact your daily use of it.I loaded 
> it on a 5 year old, single socket dual core AMD Opteron workstation 
> with only 2G of RAM and an old 3D video card.  Anything moderately 
> current should run LM13 really well.Enjoy!
> -- 
> Maxwell Spangler
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Steve Hart
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Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research
University of Colorado Boulder
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