Installed Cinnamon and loving it

[inf1nity]

So yeah i downloaded xubuntu as advised by you folks, but then my windows installation screwed up and i didn't have anyway to burn the image to a blank disc. So i installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS using a disc i had from may last year. I must say I'm loving. My USB modem worked easily, thanks to those links given by Cerb in the last thread (Thanks, man).

Today i went to Cinnamon DE. I must say its really good. Here's why.

1.Max, min and close buttons on the right. My dad can work with it too..!
2. The File, Edit menu appear on the application Window instead of the top of the screen.
3. Easy and well thought out taskbar and menu.
4. I couldn't create shortcuts on my desktop before. but i can, now !!

A small question too. Do you guys know of a way to undo "Don't show this notification again".? I clicked on it by mistake

 

[lxskllr]

A small question too. Do you guys know of a way to undo "Don't show this notification again".? I clicked on it by mistake

What did it refer to? The flag is probably in a config file somewhere.

 

[jaqie]

I am on xfce mint 14 x64. I have always had a few complaints about linux for the desktop, they are slowly getting solved for the most part.

With my setup networking with my server is always a PITA and less reliable than windows 95/98 was at it. AUGH! It still is a PITA to get set up.

Media programs of all sorts CRASH LOCK the os and just plain stop working and starting entirely when I try to import my media collections or play certain things, and all of the files work perfectly on all my windows boxes. This is just.... inexcusable to not have a simple handler for that. And yes, it is every media player I have tried, just about all of the common ones available.

Mouse sensetivity. No, I don't mean acceleration threshold like what is labeled sensetivity in linux, that is something else entirely. When will I be able to adjust the base sensetivity of a mouse in linux? Probably never, it seems. I have been waiting for this oversight to be fixed for about 12 years now.

crashes / unexpected shutdowns causing filesystem corruption. This finally seems to be fixed with ext4, thank goodness. Windows had this down in NTFS starting with NTFSv5 which came with windows 2000, FreeBSD had it with berkeley FFS which has been in there since time began abouts... linux finally has this fixed. Again, thank goodness! About time.

Simple easy and currrent gaming. With steam finally coming to linux, this has also finally been fixed. Again, thank goodness.

Trouble free install and booting on elderly hardware. I have several pentium 3 based laptops which almost every single linux falls flat on its face once installed, black screen on boot into xorg. Windows? everything from 2000 to 7 (I dont like or use 8) installs and runs fine with the video in these. The point is the unusable screen in the first place, I shouldn't have to go into any text recovery and manual config at all for a modern OS (or even one as old as 2000 or xp, they did it right too!) that was just installed. Yes, I run windows 7 on pentium 3 based systems, some of them. Runs great if you turn off all the eye candy stuff.

System responsiveness and reliability: this has been fixed lately too thank goodness, with the notable exception of the media player fiasco noted above. xmint and other mid-weight distros are really snappy even on elderly hardware now and can run and do things actively for months at a time without reboot just like my windows boxes quite often do. Unless I try playing some media.

All in all, for what you pay for, I really have come to like it with just the few notable exceptions above. Definitely worth putting up with the flaws for the cost relative to windows.

 

[Sheep221]

Yeah linux has been abit more challenging to use than windows. You should however try media player classic, if you didn't yet, it's awesome.

btw, do you have some hardware research lab in your house? Seems that you have more computers than anyone else on this forum

 

[jaqie]

I just love PC hardware so much that I wound up collecting the stuff!

 

[FrankRamiro]

I am on xfce mint 14 x64. I have always had a few complaints about linux for the desktop, they are slowly getting solved for the most part.

With my setup networking with my server is always a PITA and less reliable than windows 95/98 was at it. AUGH! It still is a PITA to get set up.

Media programs of all sorts CRASH LOCK the os and just plain stop working and starting entirely when I try to import my media collections or play certain things, and all of the files work perfectly on all my windows boxes. This is just.... inexcusable to not have a simple handler for that. And yes, it is every media player I have tried, just about all of the common ones available.

Mouse sensetivity. No, I don't mean acceleration threshold like what is labeled sensetivity in linux, that is something else entirely. When will I be able to adjust the base sensetivity of a mouse in linux? Probably never, it seems. I have been waiting for this oversight to be fixed for about 12 years now.

crashes / unexpected shutdowns causing filesystem corruption. This finally seems to be fixed with ext4, thank goodness. Windows had this down in NTFS starting with NTFSv5 which came with windows 2000, FreeBSD had it with berkeley FFS which has been in there since time began abouts... linux finally has this fixed. Again, thank goodness! About time.

Simple easy and currrent gaming. With steam finally coming to linux, this has also finally been fixed. Again, thank goodness.

Trouble free install and booting on elderly hardware. I have several pentium 3 based laptops which almost every single linux falls flat on its face once installed, black screen on boot into xorg. Windows? everything from 2000 to 7 (I dont like or use 8) installs and runs fine with the video in these. The point is the unusable screen in the first place, I shouldn't have to go into any text recovery and manual config at all for a modern OS (or even one as old as 2000 or xp, they did it right too!) that was just installed. Yes, I run windows 7 on pentium 3 based systems, some of them. Runs great if you turn off all the eye candy stuff.

System responsiveness and reliability: this has been fixed lately too thank goodness, with the notable exception of the media player fiasco noted above. xmint and other mid-weight distros are really snappy even on elderly hardware now and can run and do things actively for months at a time without reboot just like my windows boxes quite often do. Unless I try playing some media.

All in all, for what you pay for, I really have come to like it with just the few notable exceptions above. Definitely worth putting up with the flaws for the cost relative to windows.

Bro i don't know how you come about all these troubles with Linux
i use linux mint 14kde on a pc and xubuntu Xfce on a laptop and don't have nothing like you say my distros do all i need, i use to have winxp and swapped it for xubuntu xfce and don't miss it a bit a matter fact i'm better off for a long shot with xubuntu than i was with winxp, i also have win vista on another laptop and compare to mint14 kde and also like mint14 kde better,but i also like and tried Mint14 nadia mate and Ubuntu 12.04Lts

 

[inf1nity]

What did it refer to? The flag is probably in a config file somewhere.

It was the notifiaction "You are now registered on the CDMA network"

I got it when i connected to the internet with my USB modem

 

[inf1nity]

err... nobody?

 

[jaqie]

here.