I must
reckon I haven't been recently paying much attention to new Linux
releases. I so missed Linux Mint
14 release last November until some days ago. I so downloaded
Linux Mint 14 “Nadia”, the one with Cinnamon 1.6 included, in
order to give a look on how it would perform on my EEEPC 900. So
after creating a bootable USB disk using Ubuntu's disk creator tool I
restarted my netbook and started exploring the new Mint.
First
impressions
Needless
to say that Cinnamon, more than Mint itself, is the main object of my
interest. I had been positively impressed from it while
testing Mint 13 and the latest version only strengthened my
opinion.
The EEEPC
has been stable and responsive during all the time I tested Mint 14.
Cinnamon settings are a bit improved over last version.
The user
interface, traditionally styled, is configurable through themes,
applets and extensions. No extension where provided with the version
I downloaded while some choice of applets is available.
all
together Cinnamon configurations allows a pretty good customization
level over the user interface.
Conclusions
I'm even
more positive about Cinnamon on the EEEPC: it fits very well on small
screens and it gives back to me some of the feeling of control over
the interface, that the old Gnome 2 used to give. Still I'm wondering
if it's worth installing Linux Mint or is just better to install
Cinnamon over a standard Ubuntu installation.
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