With the end of November
the latest Linux Mint
distribution release has arrived. Even I haven't got Mint installed
on any of my computers anymore I decided to give it a look to see how
it behaves, at least running live, on the EEEPC. I so downloaded
Mint 16, the version shipped with Cinnamon
2.0, and prepared a USB disk using Unetbootin.
First impressions
The system started with
reasonable speed and booted into the (good) old fashioned view of the
Cinnamon desktop.
Mint 16 behaves smoothly
enough and is responsive even on the EEEPC 900 limited resources.
Linux Mint and Cinnamon
worked flawlessly during all the test, I particularly appreciate,
among many others things, the way notifications are handled
and the Software Manager
definitively more
graphic-appealing than Ubuntu Software Center.
Among the rich system
settings choice I noticed the interesting the “Effects”
settings:
that might be useful in
tuning the system responsiveness especially with slower machines.
Conclusions
I've been using Linux
Mint for more than a year, before going back to Ubuntu. Mint has
grown up a lot since then, I'm not going to switch back bur I might,
soon, give Cinnamon a chance by installing it on Ubuntu.
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