Less than a couple of months passed from
latest
Ubuntu arrival and the new Linux
Mint 15 (codenamed Olivia) also has been released. I prepared a
bootable USB disk in order to give it a look. I was, as usual, mostly
interested to the new Cinnamon
version (1.8) it comes with.
First impressions
Linux Mint welcomes you with a
reassuring plain old styled desktop.
The application menu is responsive
and it fits quite well even on the small EEEPC screen.
one of the more interesting
novelties introduced by the new Cinnamon 1.8 are desklets. Desklets
are small programs running in Cinnamon desktop much like KDE plasmoids or Android widgets.
At the moment, only a handful of
desklets are available but, with the help of Cinnamon users
community, they can become a very promising feature.
On the customization front Cinnamon
offers many way to personalize the desktop with themes, applets, and
now desklets. It gives a more comforting view on a future filled of
too many one-fits-all believers.
Conclusions
Linux Mint with Cinnamon is
definitively grown up to be one major Linux distribution but … I'm
still a little undecided about upgrading or not the EEEPC. Nowadays
you can install a new desktop manager with only a simple “apt-get”
command so, it's really worth installing a whole distribution when
you can easily have Ubuntu with Cinnamon or whatever desktop you
prefer?
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